Definition of "rap" in İngilizce

noun

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

2. (slang, with definite article) The blame for something.

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

3. (informal) A casual talk.

4. (music, uncountable) Rap music.

   • They like listening to rap.

5. A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

6. (Australia, informal) An appraisal.

   • a good/great/bad rap

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

   • He gave the novel quite a rap.

verb

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

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

3. (metalworking) 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.

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

noun

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.

noun

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.

2. A whit; a jot.

   • I don't care a rap.
   • That's not worth a rap.

verb

1. (transitive) To seize and carry off.

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

noun

1. (US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.

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

verb

1. to rappel