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noun

Rap n. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

Rap n. A quick, smart blow; a knock.

Rap n. 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." "Tie it (her money) up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent."

Not to care a rap, to care nothing.

Not worth a rap, worth nothing.

Rap n.

Conversation; also, rapping.

(ca. 1985) A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

verb

Rap v. t.

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. "With one great peal they rap the door."

(Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

Rap v. t. (past & past part. rapped, usually written rapt; pres. part. rapping)

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. "And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot." "From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove."

To hasten. (Obs.)

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." "Rapt into future times, the bard begun."

To exchange; to truck. (Obs. & Low)

To engage in a discussion, converse.

(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.

To rap and ren, To rap and rend. To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. "(Ye) waste all that ye may rape and renne." "All they could rap and rend and pilfer."

To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. "A judge who rapped out a great oath."

Rap v. i. (past & past part. rapped; pres. part. rapping) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

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Etymology of 'Rap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rap" Quotes from Famous Books

... beeches so carefully cared for in his own country, where trees and flowery are loved and petted as much as dogs and horses. And if anything can increase the contempt he feels for those who "don't care a rap" for country and country life, it is a visit to such resorts as Newport and Saratoga. There he finds men whose only notion of country life is what he would hold to be utterly destitute of all its ingredients. They build ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various

... over the stone flagging to his room and dropped listlessly into a chair. It was not long before he heard Britt's alert step in the corridor quickly followed by his brisk rap upon the door. He always had liked the ambitious young engineer and they shook ...

— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart

... humour his usual tokens of kindness consisted in a little rap on the head or a slight pinch of the ear. In his most friendly conversations with those whom he admitted into his intimacy he would say, "You are a fool"—"a simpleton"—"a ninny"—"a blockhead." These, and a few other words ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... descended with a rap, the auctioneer leaned back with an air of exhaustion, and handed the kettle to her clerk, in ...

— A College Girl • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... reach out and rap it sharply with his bill, and then look as if he didn't know what to make of it. He didn't. That egg wasn't behaving right. It should have broken when it hit the branch of the apple tree. Certainly it should have broken when he struck it that way with his bill. However was he to ...

— Blacky the Crow • Thornton W. Burgess

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