From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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