Meaning

9 senses
  1. (intransitive)To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

    стуча́тьstučátʹ

    strike sharply

  2. (dated, transitive)To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

  3. To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

  4. To utter quickly and sharply.

    The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.

  5. (ambitransitive)To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

    He started to rap after listening to Tupac.

    He rapped a song to his girlfriend.

    rappen

    рэповатьrɛpovatʹ

    perform rap music

  6. (informal, intransitive)To talk casually; to engage in conversation.

    talk volubly

  7. (transitive)To seize and carry off.

  8. (transitive)To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.

  9. To rappel

Examples

66 sentences
  1. Do you like rap?

    Ти любиш реп? — deniko

    ruТы любишь рэп? — soweli_Elepanto

    deMagst du Rap? — MUIRIEL

  2. I don't listen to rap anymore.

  3. Tom doesn't like rap at all.

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

  5. What makes you think that I can rap?

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to strike something sharply with one's knuckles:
to speak lyrics in the style of rap music:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to speak lyrics in the style of rap music:

Origin

From Middle English rappen, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish rappa (“to strike

From Middle English rappen, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish rappa (“to strike, beat, rap”), German rappeln (“to rattle”).

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Forms

raps, rapping, rapped, rapped
Base formrap · to rap
3rd person singularraps
Present participlerapping
Past simplerapped / rapt
Past participlerapped / rapt

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrap
he, she, itraps

Past simpleLesson

all personsrapped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave rapped
he, she, ithas rapped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill rap

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

5 synonyms
strike something sharply with one's knuckles:knockB1noogie
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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