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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rap \Rap\, n. A quick, smart blow; a knock. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster] 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. [1913 Webster] A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rap \Rap\ (r[a^]p), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rap \Rap\, v. t. 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. [1913 Webster] With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rap \Rap\, n. 1. conversation; also, rapping. [PJC] 2. (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; {rap music}. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. --Mrs. Alexander. [1913 Webster] {Not to care a rap}, to care nothing. {Not worth a rap}, worth nothing. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: rap n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: {blame}, {rap}] 2: a gentle blow [syn: {rap}, {strike}, {tap}] 3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: {pat}, {rap}, {tap}] 4: voluble conversation 5: 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 [syn: {rap}, {rap music}, {hip-hop}] 6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: {knock}, {belt}, {rap}, {whack}, {whang}] v 1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: {rap}, {knap}] 2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: {tap}, {rap}, {knock}, {pink}] 3: perform rap music 4: talk volubly From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: RAP [internet] Route Access Protocol (RFC 1476, Internet) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: RAP Remote Access Point From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: RAP Rich Ajax Platform (RCP, Eclipse) From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: rap /rɑp/ 1. agile 2. adroit; agile; alert; brisk; keen