W: (v) rap [Related to: rap] (make light, repeated taps on a surface) "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
W: (v) rap [Related to: rap] (strike sharply) "rap him on the knuckles"
W: (v) strike [Related to: strike] (deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon) "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead"
W: (v) strike [Related to: strike] (hit against; come into sudden contact with) "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
W: (v) tap [Related to: tap] (make light, repeated taps on a surface) "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
W: (v) tap [Related to: tap] (strike lightly) "He tapped me on the shoulder"
S: (n) pat, rap, tap (the sound made by a gentle blow)
S: (n) rap, rap music, hip-hop (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)