Noun

• S: (n) blame, rap (a reproach for some lapse or misdeed) "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
• S: (n) rap, strike, tap (a gentle blow)
• S: (n) pat, rap, tap (the sound made by a gentle blow)
• S: (n) rap (voluble conversation)
• 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)
• S: (n) knock, belt, rap, whack, whang (the act of hitting vigorously) "he gave the table a whack"

Verb

• S: (v) rap, knap (strike sharply) "rap him on the knuckles"
• S: (v) tap, rap, knock, pink (make light, repeated taps on a surface) "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) tap [Related to: tap] (a gentle blow)
• W: (n) tap [Related to: tap] (a light touch or stroke)
• W: (n) tap [Related to: tap] (the sound made by a gentle blow)
• W: (n) tapping [Related to: tap] (the sound of light blow or knock) "he heard the tapping of the man's cane"
• W: (n) rap [Related to: rap] (a gentle blow)
• W: (n) knock [Related to: knock] (the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)) "the knocking grew louder"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) rap (perform rap music)
• S: (v) rap (talk volubly)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame