Meaning

11 senses
  1. (countable)A sharp blow with something hard.

    уда́рudár

    a gentle blow

  2. (countable, slang, uncountable, with definite article)The blame for something, a reprimand, censure, or a legal sentence to serve in prison

    You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.

  3. (countable, informal, uncountable)A casual talk.

  4. (uncountable)Rap music.

    They like listening to rap.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

  6. (Australia, countable, informal, uncountable)An appraisal.

    a good/great/bad rap

  7. (Australia, countable, informal, uncountable)A positive appraisal; a recommendation.

    He gave the novel quite a rap.

  8. A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.

  9. (historical)Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

  10. A whit; a jot.

    I don't care a rap.

    That's not worth a rap.

  11. (countable, slang)A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.

Examples

66 sentences
  1. Do you like rap?

    Ти любиш реп?

    ruТы любишь рэп?

    deMagst du Rap?

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  2. I don't listen to rap anymore.

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  3. Tom doesn't like rap at all.

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  4. I don't really enjoy most rap music.

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  5. What makes you think that I can rap?

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a sharp blow with something hard:

Origin

From Middle English rap, rappe, of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian rapp (“a bl

From Middle English rap, rappe, of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian rapp (“a blow, strike, lash”), Swedish rapp (“a blow, lash, crack”), Danish rap (“a tap, smart, blow”). Compare Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”). More at rape.

Perhaps contracted from rapparee.

From RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”).

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Forms

plural: raps
Singularrap
Pluralraps

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged:rap musichip-hop
  • a gentle blow:striketap
  • a reproach for some lapse or misdeed:blame
  • the sound made by a gentle blow:pattap
  • the act of hitting vigorously:knockbeltwhackwhang

Word family

34 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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