Definizione monolingua

rap

rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)

1. To strike something sharply with ones knuckles; knock.
   • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, ""The Raven"":

     Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ ""Tis some visitor"", I muttered, ""tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more.""

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter II,

     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.

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

   He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys

   He rapped a song to his girlfriend.

3. (informal, intransitive) To talk casually.

rap (countable and uncountable; plural raps)

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

   The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter II,

     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.

2. (uncountable) Blame (for something).

   You cant act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.

3. (informal) A casual talk
4. (uncountable) Rap music.
5. A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

rap (comparative rapper, superlative rapst)

1. quick, fast

   Kom eens heel rap hier! - You quickly get over here!

Definizione dizionario rap

battere

bussare

colpire

colpo

musica rap

rap

scapaccione

Altri significati:

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

To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

(informal) A casual talk

To speak lyrics in the style of rap music

(uncountable) Blame (for something).

A sharp blow with something hard

(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.

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

(uncountable) Rap music.

To strike something sharply with one's knuckles

(informal, intransitive) To talk casually.

Rap music