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The Rapaport Diamond Report, the diamond industry standard for the pricing of diamonds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, slang
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noun
A sharp blow with something hard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
The blame for something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article
Synonyms: blame, fall
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noun
A casual talk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
Rap music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An appraisal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, countable, informal, uncountable
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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A whit; a jot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: government, law-enforcement
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Synonyms: RAP, rapsheet, rap sheet
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noun
A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang
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noun
Initialism of recognized air picture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of retirement annuity plan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Qualifier: pensions
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noun
Initialism of reclaimed asphalt pavement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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verb
To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, transitive
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verb
To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, crafts, engineering, hobbies, lifestyle, metallurgy, metalworking, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To utter quickly and sharply.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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verb
To seize and carry off.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
to rappel
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
the act of hitting vigorously
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: knock, belt, whack, whang
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Broader terms: blow
noun
a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: blame
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reproach
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rap music, hip-hop
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Broader terms: black music, African-American music, popular music, popular music genre
noun
voluble conversation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: conversation
noun
the sound made by a gentle blow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pat, tap
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Broader terms: sound
Narrower terms: pitter-patter
noun
a gentle blow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: strike, tap
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Broader terms: blow, bump
verb
talk volubly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: talk, speak
verb
strike sharply
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: knap
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Broader terms: strike
Narrower terms: knock
verb
perform rap music
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: perform
verb
make light, repeated taps on a surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: tap, knock, pink
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Broader terms: sound, go
History
From Middle English rap, rappe, of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian rapp (“a blow, strike, lash”), Swedish rapp (“a blow, lash, crack”), Danish rap (“a tap, smart, blow”). Compare Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”). More at rape.
Uncertain.
Perhaps contracted from rapparee.
From RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”).
From Middle English rappen, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish rappa (“to strike, beat, rap”), German rappeln (“to rattle”).
Across languages
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
