Dictionary Entry
rap
rap is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
- 2intransitive verb
To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
- 3transitive verb
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
- 4transitive verb
To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
- 5noun
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
- 6verb
To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
- 7verb
To hasten.
- 8verb
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.
- 9verb
To exchange; to truck.
- 10noun
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.
- 11noun
the act of hitting vigorously
"he gave the table a whack"
- 12noun
a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
"he took the blame for it"
"it was a bum rap"
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- 13noun
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
- 14noun
voluble conversation
- 15noun
the sound made by a gentle blow
- 16noun
a gentle blow
- 17verb
talk volubly
- 18verb
strike sharply
"rap him on the knuckles"
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- 19verb
perform rap music
- 20verb
make light, repeated taps on a surface
"he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
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