RAP


Meaning of RAP in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

gangsta rap

rap sheet

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

bad

There have been worse rap sheets on athletes.

She said social programs of the 1960s have gotten a bad rap in the 1990s.

bum

They got me on a bum rap .

gangsta

Dre, 31, co-founded Death Row Records but walked away from the company and gangsta rap last March.

It is powerful enough to be the object of high praise in gangsta rap songs.

Or where gangsta rap gets played with nothing bleeped.

■ NOUN

group

Last year Shawn Stussy openly embraced the straight, utility clothing sported by many rap groups .

The only character with more depth than a hardwood floor is Shorty, played by Fredro Starr of the rap group Onyx.

There, he joined a six-man rap group in which he was the lead vocalist -- and the only white.

music

The pseudonym had been insisted upon by the other band members, since they had openly attacked rap music in the past.

At the news conference, Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.

Spielberg's film swamps the Neverland with baseball and basketball, with burgers and skateboards and rap music .

Workshops on desegregation, education reform, military discrimination and rap music were packed, and discussion was lively.

Low-rider chariots with rap music blasting, silent horseback riders.

The ads seek to convince corporations to stop producing certain rap music and to convince consumers to stop buying.

sheet

There have been worse rap sheets on athletes.

star

The rap star confirmed yesterday that he and Jennifer had split up.

One month later he was shacked up in some hotel room with a leggy rap star .

■ VERB

beat

As petrol is beating the stigma of carrying lead, so diesel must beat the particulate rap .

I was dismayed by these feelings, even ashamed, having always presumed that a good feminist would beat this rap .

take

It is the incentives under which financial users and providers operate that should take the rap and which require attention.

Ed Vulliamy Who should take the rap ?

Mike refuses, takes the rap , and Ernie goes free.

What you hope he will do is to remain silent and let Preval make decisions and take the rap for unpopular choices.

He has set up his neighbour to take the rap for a very nasty murder.

And it is these bit players who nearly always take the rap , rather than white-collar drug lords such as Amado Carrillo.

People like you usually arrange it so that people like Gleeson take the rap .

Combs also is charged with bribery for allegedly offering his driver $ 50,000 to take the gun rap for him.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

beat the rap

Frye was arrested on state and federal charges, but he managed to beat the rap.

He's been arrested on federal charges three times and has beaten the rap every time.

He's been indicted three times, but beat the rap each time.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

There was a rap at the kitchen door.

We heard a sharp rap on the door.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A few seconds later a rap on the side caused several sinuous silhouettes to leap back into the shadows.

Along with rap artists and basketball players, these are the black men the black boys look up to.

At the news conference, Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.

I just tell him to shut up and give him a sharp rap across the knuckles.

Music ranges from funk and rap to house, but is always the last word in drop-dead cool.

The Roots rocked the house, bringing its own style of rap .

What you hope he will do is to remain silent and let Preval make decisions and take the rap for unpopular choices.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

L.L. Cool J raps on a new album of Disney songs.

Nelson is being rapped for his team's loss.

Sammy was rapping about some guy in L.A.

Seeing her son outside, Mrs Evans rapped on the window and called him back into the house.

She rapped the table with her pen and called for silence.

The conductor rapped the music stand with his baton and the violins stopped playing.

Yoshinaka rapped an order at his men.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Creed went over and rapped on the top section, but there was no answer.

He rapped gently on the wood.

It raps a defector over the knuckles instantly but, after that, lets bygones be bygones.

Knuckles were rapping on the car windows, breath steaming the glass.

My consciousness was raised, my knuckles were rapped and I no longer write or think that way.

There was a small, delicate rapping at the door.

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