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Synonyms for rap
ræprap
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
rap
A blow is a sudden impact, as of a fist or a club; a stroke is a sweeping movement; as, the stroke of a sword, of an oar, of the arm in swimming. A shock is the sudden encounter with some heavy body; as, colliding railway-trains meet with a shock; the shock of battle. A slap is given with the open hand, a lash with a whip, thong, or the like; we speak also of the cut of a whip. A buffet or cuff is given only with the hand; a blow either with hand or weapon. A cuff is a somewhat sidelong blow, generally with the open hand; as, a cuff or box on the ear. A stripe is the effect or mark of a stroke. In the metaphorical sense, blow is used for sudden, stunning, staggering calamity or sorrow; stroke for sweeping disaster, and also for sweeping achievement and success. We say a stroke of paralysis, or a stroke of genius. We speak of the buffets of adverse fortune. Shock is used of that which is at once sudden, violent, and prostrating; we speak of a shock of electricity, the shock of an amputation, a shock of surprise. Compare BEAT.
Synonyms:
blow, box, buffet, calamity, concussion, cuff, cut, disaster, knock, lash, misfortune, shock, stripe, stroke, thump
Princeton's WordNet
blame, rapnoun
a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
"he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
Synonyms:
whack, knock, incrimination, hip-hop, strike, rap music, pat, belt, blame, whang, inculpation, taprap, strike, tapnoun
a gentle blow
Synonyms:
dab, ten-strike, bang, strike, water tap, smasher, tap, belt, spigot, knock, work stoppage, hydrant, pat, whang, blame, hit, whack, rap music, hip-hop, water faucet, wiretap, smashpat, rap, tapnoun
the sound made by a gentle blow
Synonyms:
strike, wiretap, tap, belt, spigot, knock, water faucet, hydrant, pat, blame, whang, whack, rap music, hip-hop, dab, water taprapnoun
voluble conversation
Synonyms:
knock, hip-hop, strike, rap music, pat, belt, whack, whang, blame, taprap, rap music, hip-hopnoun
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
Synonyms:
knock, hip-hop, strike, rap music, pat, belt, whack, whang, blame, tapknock, belt, rap, whack, whangverb
the act of hitting vigorously
"he gave the table a whack"
Synonyms:
bang, strike, swath, roast, tap, belt, knock, belted ammunition, pat, belt ammunition, blame, whang, whack, rap music, knocking, bash, hip-hop, smashrap, knapverb
strike sharply
"rap him on the knuckles"
tap, rap, knock, pinkverb
make light, repeated taps on a surface
"he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
Synonyms:
criticise, pick apart, solicit, bump, exploit, wiretap, tip, tap, pink, knock, intercept, bug, beg, tapdance, ping, knap, criticize, strike hardrapverb
perform rap music
rapverb
talk volubly
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#451 | box | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1298 | pa | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1551 | hit | |
#1961 | pink | |
#2043 | bug | |
#2540 | blow | |
#2765 | tip | |
#3712 | chip | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4051 | bang | |
#4121 | belt | |
#4134 | disaster | |
#4220 | par | |
#4535 | pat | |
#4602 | shock | |
#5355 | app | |
#5586 | stroke | |
#5857 | rap | |
#6828 | tap | |
#7199 | blame | |
#8616 | ping | |
#9810 | knock | |
#10147 | buffet | |
#10264 | exploit | |
#10441 | bash | |
#10588 | bump | |
#10796 | pcr | |
#11575 | stripe | |
#13309 | roast | |
#13346 | smash | |
#14945 | cuff | |
#14968 | beg | |
#17639 | dab | |
#19810 | knocking | |
#19862 | intercept | |
#20275 | pip | |
#21015 | eap | |
#21425 | solicit | |
#23206 | rapper | |
#23356 | criticize | |
#28348 | dap | |
#29725 | lash | |
#31190 | misfortune | |
#31695 | whack | |
#32207 | hbp | |
#34052 | calamity | |
#41588 | thump | |
#42591 | swath | |
#42659 | wiretap | |
#44488 | raps | |
#46484 | concussion | |
#47065 | criticise | |
#48054 | hydrant | |
#49534 | spigot | |
#55313 | apb | |
#68048 | eor | |
#82430 | incrimination | |
#96831 | smasher | |
#108159 | knap | |
#146144 | whang |
How to use rap in a sentence?
My favorite rap groups were NWA and Public enemy, yes FTP (an Acronym for f*** the police) was playing on my tape deck when I'm driving my Nissan Sentra back in the day.
Ryerson Professor-In-Residence Dalton Higgins:
When you have these two Black Canadian artists from Toronto who are performing rap, RB and pop, and are arguably on their way to becoming billionaires at some point in the future, there is a lot to learn from them.
My name is Kanye, I'm from the south side of Chicago, i'm originally a producer. I always wanted to rap and no one really believed in me, so I wanted to try some things out, ya know?
We have just barred him from preaching using rap music to allow him time to change his ways.
There is an epidemic of violence against women, we can't have a national plan to reduce violence against women at the same time as rolling out the red carpet for rap artists with his history.
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