Noun

• S: (n) blame, rap (a reproach for some lapse or misdeed) "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) reproach (a mild rebuke or criticism) "words of reproach"
• S: (n) rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand (an act or expression of criticism and censure) "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"
• S: (n) criticism, unfavorable judgment (disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings) "the senator received severe criticism from his opponent"
• S: (n) disapproval (the expression of disapproval)
• S: (n) message, content, subject matter, substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
• S: (n) communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• 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"
• S: (v) rap (perform rap music)
• S: (v) rap (talk volubly)