"rap" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɹæp/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wrap.wav [Southern-England] Forms: raps [plural]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|rap}} Middle English rap, {{m|enm|rappe}} rappe, {{der|en|gmq}} North Germanic, {{cog|no|rapp||a blow, strike, lash}} Norwegian rapp (“a blow, strike, lash”), {{cog|sv|rapp||a blow, lash, crack}} Swedish rapp (“a blow, lash, crack”), {{cog|da|rap||a tap, smart, blow}} Danish rap (“a tap, smart, blow”), {{cog|ang|hreppan||to touch, treat}} Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”), {{l|en|rape}} rape Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} rap (countable and uncountable, plural raps)
  1. (countable) A sharp blow with something hard. Tags: countable Translations (a sharp blow with something hard): почукване (počukvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), рязък удар (rjazǎk udar) [masculine] (Bulgarian), klap [masculine] (Dutch), kopaus (Finnish), näpäys (Finnish), уда́р (udár) [masculine] (Russian), bualadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-~9LyqmzX Disambiguation of 'a sharp blow with something hard': 95 0 0 2 1 1 1
  2. (slang) Blame for something. Tags: countable, slang, uncountable Synonyms (blame): fall Translations (blame): syy (Finnish), culpa [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun--G8~8kjQ Disambiguation of 'blame': 2 77 1 4 10 1 5 Disambiguation of 'blame': 2 77 1 4 10 1 5
  3. (informal) A casual talk. Tags: countable, informal, uncountable
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-TrS7nexL
  4. (music, uncountable) Rap music. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Musical genres
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-oDQCqvb7 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  5. A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-IbQNm702
  6. (Australia, informal) An appraisal. Tags: Australia, countable, informal, uncountable
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-SHegG~eT Categories (other): Australian English
  7. (Australia, informal) A positive appraisal; a recommendation. Tags: Australia, countable, informal, uncountable
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-81FSvlhz Categories (other): Australian English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun

IPA: /ɹæp/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wrap.wav [Southern-England] Forms: raps [plural]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: Uncertain. Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain Head templates: {{en-noun}} rap (plural raps)
  1. 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.
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-bP1YHBso
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /ɹæp/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wrap.wav [Southern-England] Forms: raps [plural]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: Perhaps contracted from rapparee. Etymology templates: {{m|en|rapparee}} rapparee Head templates: {{en-noun}} rap (plural raps)
  1. (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. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-ZP4yUQr0
  2. A whit; a jot.
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-~ye232qO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Noun

IPA: /ɹæp/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wrap.wav [Southern-England] Forms: raps [plural]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: From RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|RAP|gloss=record of arrest and prosecution}} RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} rap (plural raps)
  1. (US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution. Tags: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Alternative form of: record of arrest and prosecution Categories (topical): Law enforcement Synonyms: RAP
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-lSiwk8MW Categories (other): American English Topics: government, law-enforcement
  2. (countable, slang) A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. Tags: countable, slang
    Sense id: en-rap-en-noun-gKGV06Ve
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: murder rap, rap sheet
Etymology number: 6

Verb

IPA: /ɹæp/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wrap.wav [Southern-England] Forms: raps [present, singular, third-person], rapping [participle, present], rapped [participle, past], rapped [past]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: From Middle English rappen, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish rappa (“to strike, beat, rap”), German rappeln (“to rattle”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|rappen}} Middle English rappen, {{der|en|gmq}} North Germanic, {{cog|sv|rappa||to strike, beat, rap}} Swedish rappa (“to strike, beat, rap”), {{cog|de|rappeln||to rattle}} German rappeln (“to rattle”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)
  1. (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock. Tags: intransitive Synonyms (strike something sharply with one's knuckles): knock, noogie Translations (to strike something sharply with one's knuckles): почуквам (počukvam) (Bulgarian), koputtaa (Finnish), pātōtō (Maori), стуча́ть (stučátʹ) (Russian), buail (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-rap-en-verb-8fSTDNye Disambiguation of "strike something sharply with one's knuckles": 87 4 2 5 0 1 Disambiguation of "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles": 86 6 1 5 0 1
  2. (transitive, dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. Tags: dated, transitive
    Sense id: en-rap-en-verb-2XZqHwD3
  3. (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. Categories (topical): Metalworking
  4. To utter quickly and sharply.
    Sense id: en-rap-en-verb-SbJO1Art
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to speak lyrics in the style of rap music): rappen (Dutch), repi (Esperanto), räpätä (Finnish), rappare (Italian), rapować (Polish), rapear [colloquial] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-rap-en-verb-uvGk5S14 Disambiguation of 'to speak lyrics in the style of rap music': 0 1 4 0 94 2
  6. (informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation. Tags: informal, intransitive
    Sense id: en-rap-en-verb-4yR26woH
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: rap and rend, rap at, rap on, rapper Related terms: emcee, hip-hop
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ɹæp/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wrap.wav [Southern-England] Forms: raps [present, singular, third-person], rapping [participle, present], rapped [participle, past], rapped [past], rapt [participle, past], rapt [past]
Rhymes: -æp Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=rapt}} rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped or rapt)
  1. (transitive) To seize and carry off. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-rap-en-verb-05bHf-Y~
  2. (transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-rap-en-verb-csO0yJKw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 5

Verb

IPA: /ɹæp/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wrap.wav [Southern-England] Forms: raps [present, singular, third-person], rapping [participle, present], rapped [participle, past], rapped [past]
Rhymes: -æp Head templates: {{en-verb}} rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)
  1. to rappel Derived forms: rap down, rap jumping Related terms: rap-full (english: etymologically unrelated)
    Sense id: en-rap-en-verb-2wNvY2e~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 7

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187",
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          "text": "You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap."
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        "(slang) Blame for something."
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          "ref": "14 April 79, “Calendar”, in Gay Community News, page 16",
          "text": "Clearspace is holding a bisexuality rap at the center, 485 Mass Ave. 7:30pm. Topic of discussion will be femininity and masculinity.",
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          "text": "a good/great/bad rap",
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        "(Australia, informal) An appraisal."
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        "(Australia, informal) A positive appraisal; a recommendation."
      ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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          "ref": "1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter II, in The House Behind the Cedars",
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        "(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock."
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          "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
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        {
          "_dis1": "86 6 1 5 0 1",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
          "word": "koputtaa"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
          "word": "pātōtō"
        },
        {
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          "roman": "stučátʹ",
          "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
          "word": "стуча́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 6 1 5 0 1",
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          "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
          "word": "buail"
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        {
          "ref": "1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove",
          "text": "With one great peal they rap the door.",
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        "To strike with a quick blow; to knock on."
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        "(transitive, dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on."
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            "Metallurgy",
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            "Metals",
            "Technology",
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        "To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal."
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        "(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal."
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        "arts",
        "crafts",
        "engineering",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "metallurgy",
        "metalworking",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
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    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops."
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      "glosses": [
        "To utter quickly and sharply."
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        {
          "text": "He started to rap after listening to Tupac."
        },
        {
          "text": "He rapped a song to his girlfriend."
        },
        {
          "ref": "April 19, 2012, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian",
          "text": "But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.",
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        "To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music."
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          "rap music",
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music."
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        "transitive"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
          "word": "rappen"
        },
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
          "word": "repi"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 1 4 0 94 2",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
          "word": "räpätä"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 1 4 0 94 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
          "word": "rappare"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 1 4 0 94 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
          "word": "rapować"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 4 0 94 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
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            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "rapear"
        }
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 129",
          "text": "Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "12 Apr 80, Mike Sassin, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19",
          "text": "Got your address from NGTF, I could dig some mail and friends. I'll be released in July of '80, am 24, and like chess, body building, people and of course letters. Nice rapping to you.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To talk casually; to engage in conversation."
      ],
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        "(informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation."
      ],
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        "informal",
        "intransitive"
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      "ipa": "/ɹæp/"
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  "etymology_number": 3,
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      "expansion": "Uncertain",
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        {
          "ref": "1881, Alfred Spitzli, A Manual for Managers, Designers, Weavers, and All Others, page 22",
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          "ref": "1885, Thomas Rotherforth Ashenhurst, A practical treatise on weaving and designing of textile fabrics",
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          "ref": "1888, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Manchester Meeting, 1887 on the Regulation of Wages by Means of Lists in the Cotton Industry., page 19",
          "text": "The yarn rap reel is 1½ yard in circumference; 80 rounds or 120 yards make one rap; 7 raps or 840 yards one bank. In 1 lb. of cotton yarn there are 7,000 grains. When one rap weighs 1,000 grains, or seven raps 7,000 grains, the yarn is one hank to the pound, and when ten raps weigh 350 grains it is 28.57 hanks to the pound.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, How to Build, Equip and Operate a Cotton Mill in the United States, page 408",
          "text": "Rule to find constant for beams: Multiply the number of yards in one rap by the number of ends in the beam, and by the number of raps on the beam and divide by 840.",
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          "ref": "1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 1",
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        {
          "ref": "1886, Mrs. Alexander, Beaton's Bargain",
          "text": "Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.",
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          "text": "I don't care a rap.",
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        "A whit; a jot."
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        "(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture."
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "(US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution."
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        "abbreviation",
        "acronym",
        "alt-of"
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        "law-enforcement"
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          "text": "We got one maybe ID, but when we checked, we found out the suspect's been in Rikers for a year on a drug rap.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction."
      ],
      "id": "en-rap-en-noun-gKGV06Ve",
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        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "conviction",
          "conviction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, slang) A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɹæp/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æp"
    },
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      "homophone": "wrap"
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        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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}

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  "etymology_text": "",
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    {
      "form": "raps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "rapping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rapped",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rapped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "rap down"
        },
        {
          "word": "rap jumping"
        }
      ],
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        "to rappel"
      ],
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        [
          "rappel",
          "rappel"
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        {
          "english": "etymologically unrelated",
          "word": "rap-full"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɹæp/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æp"
    },
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      "homophone": "wrap"
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "backpack rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "bad rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "beat the rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "bum rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "cloud rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "conscious rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "country rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "emo rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "gangsta rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "gangster rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "jazz rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "Memphis rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "mumble rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "progressive rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "proto-rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap back"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap group"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap-like"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap metal"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap music"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap rock"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap someone's knuckles"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap song"
    },
    {
      "word": "SoundCloud rap"
    },
    {
      "word": "take the rap"
    }
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "raps",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: raps",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: raps"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "rapsen",
            "der": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ Dutch: rapsen",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Dutch: rapsen"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "rap",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Finnish: rap",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Finnish: rap"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Rap",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Rap",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Rap"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mk",
            "2": "рап",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Macedonian: рап (rap)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Macedonian: рап (rap)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "rap"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English rap",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "rappe"
      },
      "expansion": "rappe",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmq"
      },
      "expansion": "North Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "no",
        "2": "rapp",
        "3": "",
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      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian rapp (“a blow, strike, lash”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "rapp",
        "3": "",
        "4": "a blow, lash, crack"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish rapp (“a blow, lash, crack”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "rap",
        "3": "",
        "4": "a tap, smart, blow"
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      "expansion": "Danish rap (“a tap, smart, blow”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hreppan",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to touch, treat"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”)",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rape"
      },
      "expansion": "rape",
      "name": "l"
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    {
      "form": "raps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187",
          "text": "The author (obviously a naturalist of no mean order) received an official rap over the knuckles for trespassing, and for encouraging others to do so. Evidently the instigator of this reprimand had not visited the railway in blackberry time!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sharp blow with something hard."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A sharp blow with something hard."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Blame for something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Blame",
          "blame"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Blame for something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "14 April 79, “Calendar”, in Gay Community News, page 16",
          "text": "Clearspace is holding a bisexuality rap at the center, 485 Mass Ave. 7:30pm. Topic of discussion will be femininity and masculinity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A casual talk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A casual talk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Musical genres"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rap music."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "Rap music",
          "rap music"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music, uncountable) Rap music."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "song",
          "song"
        ],
        [
          "verse",
          "verse"
        ],
        [
          "rap music",
          "rap music"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a good/great/bad rap",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An appraisal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "appraisal",
          "appraisal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, informal) An appraisal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "countable",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He gave the novel quite a rap.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A positive appraisal; a recommendation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "positive",
          "positive"
        ],
        [
          "recommendation",
          "recommendation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, informal) A positive appraisal; a recommendation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "countable",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹæp/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æp"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wrap"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "blame",
      "word": "fall"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "počukvane",
      "sense": "a sharp blow with something hard",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "почукване"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "rjazǎk udar",
      "sense": "a sharp blow with something hard",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "рязък удар"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a sharp blow with something hard",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "klap"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a sharp blow with something hard",
      "word": "kopaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a sharp blow with something hard",
      "word": "näpäys"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "udár",
      "sense": "a sharp blow with something hard",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "уда́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "a sharp blow with something hard",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bualadh"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "blame",
      "word": "syy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "blame",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "culpa"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "rap"
  ],
  "word": "rap"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "rap and rend"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap at"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap on"
    },
    {
      "word": "rapper"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "rappen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English rappen",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmq"
      },
      "expansion": "North Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "rappa",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to strike, beat, rap"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish rappa (“to strike, beat, rap”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "rappeln",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to rattle"
      },
      "expansion": "German rappeln (“to rattle”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English rappen, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish rappa (“to strike, beat, rap”), German rappeln (“to rattle”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "raps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rapping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rapped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rapped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "emcee"
    },
    {
      "word": "hip-hop"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter II, in The House Behind the Cedars",
          "text": "He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "knuckle",
          "knuckle"
        ],
        [
          "knock",
          "knock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove",
          "text": "With one great peal they rap the door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strike with a quick blow; to knock on."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Metalworking"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "metalworking",
          "metalworking"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arts",
        "crafts",
        "engineering",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "metallurgy",
        "metalworking",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To utter quickly and sharply."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He started to rap after listening to Tupac."
        },
        {
          "text": "He rapped a song to his girlfriend."
        },
        {
          "ref": "April 19, 2012, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian",
          "text": "But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "rap music",
          "rap music"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 129",
          "text": "Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "12 Apr 80, Mike Sassin, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19",
          "text": "Got your address from NGTF, I could dig some mail and friends. I'll be released in July of '80, am 24, and like chess, body building, people and of course letters. Nice rapping to you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To talk casually; to engage in conversation."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹæp/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æp"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wrap"
    },
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    {
      "sense": "strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
      "word": "knock"
    },
    {
      "sense": "strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
      "word": "noogie"
    }
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "počukvam",
      "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
      "word": "почуквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
      "word": "koputtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
      "word": "pātōtō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stučátʹ",
      "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
      "word": "стуча́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to strike something sharply with one's knuckles",
      "word": "buail"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
      "word": "rappen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
      "word": "repi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
      "word": "räpätä"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
      "word": "rappare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
      "word": "rapować"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to speak lyrics in the style of rap music",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "rapear"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rap"
}

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      "expansion": "Uncertain",
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        },
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          "ref": "1881, Alfred Spitzli, A Manual for Managers, Designers, Weavers, and All Others, page 22",
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          "ref": "1885, Thomas Rotherforth Ashenhurst, A practical treatise on weaving and designing of textile fabrics",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Manchester Meeting, 1887 on the Regulation of Wages by Means of Lists in the Cotton Industry., page 19",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, How to Build, Equip and Operate a Cotton Mill in the United States, page 408",
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          "yarn"
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          "ref": "1886, Mrs. Alexander, Beaton's Bargain",
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          "text": "I don't care a rap.",
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        "A whit; a jot."
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        "past"
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        "To seize and carry off."
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        "(transitive) To seize and carry off."
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  "derived": [
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      "word": "murder rap"
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    {
      "word": "rap sheet"
    }
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        }
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        "law-enforcement"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        }
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        "(countable, slang) A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction."
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        "slang"
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      ],
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    }
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  "derived": [
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      "word": "rap down"
    },
    {
      "word": "rap jumping"
    }
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  "etymology_number": 7,
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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        "present"
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      "word": "rap-full"
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