Usually means: Rhythmic poetry expressed over beats.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word rap:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rap, the rap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rap, rap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rap, rap, rap, rap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rap, rap: Wordnik
  7. rap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. RAP, Rap, rap: Wiktionary
  9. rap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. RAP, rap: Dictionary.com
  13. rap (n.), rap (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RAP (disambiguation), RAP (football club), RAP, Rap (disambiguation), Rap (music), Rap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rap: Rhymezone
  19. rap, rap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. R.A.P, Rap: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rap: Free Dictionary
  23. rap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rap: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. rap: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. rap-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. rap: Legal dictionary
  3. RAP: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. RAP (Resource Allocation Protocol): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  3. rap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. RAP: Acronym Finder
  4. RAP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. rap: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rap: Anthropological Terms

Slang (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. rap, rap, rap, rap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rap: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Rap: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. Rap: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  6. R.A.P, R.A.P, Rap: Urban Dictionary
  7. Rap: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang
  8. Rap: 1960's Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. rap: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. RAP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See raping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
noun:  (slang, with definite article) The blame for something.
noun:  (informal) A casual talk.
noun:  (music, uncountable) Rap music.
noun:  A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
noun:  (Australia, informal) An appraisal.
noun:  (Australia, informal) A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
verb:  (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
verb:  (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
verb:  To utter quickly and sharply.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
noun:  A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
noun:  (historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
noun:  A whit; a jot.
verb:  (transitive) To seize and carry off.
verb:  (transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
noun:  (countable, slang) A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
verb:  to rappel
noun:  recognized air picture
noun:  (slang, attributive) The Rapaport Diamond Report, the diamond industry standard for the pricing of diamonds.
noun:  (US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
noun:  (UK, pensions) Initialism of retirement annuity plan. [(UK, pensions) A retirement annuity contract.]
noun:  (US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.

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