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verb
- 1. strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention: "he stood up and rapped the table" Similar
- 2. perform rap music: "he raps under the name of Mr T"
noun
- 1. a quick, sharp knock or blow: "there was a confident rap at the door" Similar
- 2. a type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing: "the label specializes in rap and modern soul"
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a statement accusing someone of a crime, or the punishment that someone is given for a crime: He always said he was jailed on a bum rap (= false accusation). The police caught him, but somehow he managed to beat the rap (= escape punishment).
1. : a sharp blow or knock. 2. a. : a sharp rebuke or criticism. b. : a negative and often undeserved reputation or chargeoften used with bum or bad. given a bum rap by the press. 3. a. : the responsibility for or adverse consequences of an action. refused to take the rap. b. : a criminal charge. c. : a prison sentence. rap. 2 of 6. verb (1)
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [1] emceeing [2] or MCing [2] [3]) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular ". [4] It is usually performed over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. [4]
Rap definition: to strike, especially with a quick, smart, or light blow. See examples of RAP used in a sentence.
May 29, 2024 · Rap, musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (’rapped’) to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling, is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying, graffiti painting, and break dancing.
Rap is a type of music in which the words are not sung but are spoken in a rapid, rhythmic way. For some people, rap–the music of the hip-hop generation–is just so much noise. ...a rap group.
RAP definition: 1. a type of music in which the words are spoken and there is a strong beat: 2. a sudden, short…. Learn more.
Definition of rap noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.
Jun 1, 2024 · hip-hop, cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and ’90s and also the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form.
