<noun.communication> he took the blame for it it was a bum rap
a gentle blow
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the sound made by a gentle blow
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voluble conversation
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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 \Rap\ (r[a^]p), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.] To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
Rap \Rap\, v. t. 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior.
2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Rap \Rap\, n. A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt), usually written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton.
2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison.
Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
5. To engage in a discussion, converse. [PJC]
6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see {rap music}. [PJC]
{To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. ``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer.
All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
{To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
Rap \Rap\, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.] A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. --Swift.
Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. --Mrs. Alexander.
{Not to care a rap}, to care nothing.
{Not worth a rap}, worth nothing.
Rap \Rap\, n. 1. conversation; also, rapping. [PJC]
2. (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; {rap music}. [PJC]
On Wednesday, however, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., jury convicted record store owner Charles Freeman of obscenity for selling a sexually explicit record by the rap group 2 Live Crew.
She started making demos with the help of friends she met in the rap industry and finally scored with "Princess of the Posse," which was shown on "Yo!
"It's like you got no choice, because it's coming right into your living room," said Parrish Smith of rap group EPMD.
"I think basically the banana slug has gotten a bad rap," she said. "They're obviously easy to look down upon, and they do have some odd habits.
A show by the rap group 2 Live Crew wasn't as nasty _ or as long _ as the audience wanted.
Those steps could include a ban on rap concerts, said colisuem spokeswoman Hilary Hartung.
A telephone call seeking comment at the office of Marty Schwartz, the rap artist's personal manager, was not answered after business hours Friday.
A certain glee comes from hearing the Windsors and their neighbours do a rap number, but less than you might hope. The fine cast is led by Pam Ferris as the Queen - an outstanding performance.
Earlier Friday, Jack Leinen, a former youth service worker at the Meyer Hall juvenile detention center in Des Moines, testified he'd heard Ruben describe the crime, using the style of a rap song.
"One of the reasons drug testing has gotten such a bad rap is because people have had lousy policies," he says.
One after the other they will say they deserved the whippings they used to get, but they don't deserve the bad rap they're getting now.
Its hottest item: satin team jackets retailing for $90 to $200. Its biggest impetus: not athletes and coaches but rap groups and movie stars, wearing them in performance.
"I think basically the banana slug has gotten a bad rap," said Hopcraft, who wore a yellow armband Tuesday in memory of Sher's bill. "They're obviously easy to look down upon and they do have some odd habits.
The coroners tried to find next of kin by checking a police rap sheet, hospital records, and Veteran's Administration files.
A judge's ruling will allow sheriffs to arrest shop owners for selling a rap album that allegedly contains obscenities.
"From what I've been able to observe, FEMA, very frankly, got a bum rap," she said.
"What happened was not our fault, not Cupcake's fault," said Mrs. Eggers. "There is just no way we are going to pay for this." "We think Cupcake is getting a bad rap," she said.
For example, one issue of the Procter & Gamble-sponsored Connections featured the popular rap music group Run-DMC as "hosts" of "Get Hip to Lit," about poetry and literary classics.
Members of this Texas rap group brag they make 2 Live Crew sound like "choir boys."
That opened the bottom half of the draw for Sabatini, and she seized the opportunity mainly by dispelling the rap that she's easily pooped.
It bought Island Records Ltd., a London-based company that specializes in rap and reggae music, in August for an estimated $300 million.
Three of the first 25 potential jurors questioned Monday and Tuesday were black and one was under 25, said Bruce Rogow, attorney for the three members of the black rap group arrested for performing songs from an album pronounced obscene.
Now, Mr. Bush's role as the Beltway candidate, while understandable, is in many ways a bum rap.
An earlier version explained the cultural and historical context of rap, but Mr. Schreger and other HRI executives decided it had too much information.
Meanwhile, some rap artists feel snubbed because the rap music award isn't set for the televised portion of the show.
Meanwhile, some rap artists feel snubbed because the rap music award isn't set for the televised portion of the show.
The young London-based singer's "Raw Like Sushi" is a fresh mix of pop, rap and house music with a bravado sure to appeal to girls growing up in a changing world.
Plainclothes deputies were inside the club early Sunday as the rap group led the crowd in chanting repeated insults aimed at Navarro, but Gordon said the arrests were not meant as retaliation.
"Julie and I, of all people, do a rap," Burnett says. "I fell down when she suggested it.
Kool Moo Dee and Fresh Prince did a rap pitch this year in radio commercials for Miller Genuine Draft beer.