Toward afternoon, he rapped on the dividing window and asked the chauffeur to stop. She rapped the table with her pen and called for silence. Seeing her son outside, Mrs Evans rapped on the window and called him back into the house. Creed went over and rapped on the top section, but there was no answer. Knuckles were rapping on the car windows, breath steaming the glass. 
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Nelson is being rapped for his team's loss. There was a small, delicate rapping at the door. My consciousness was raised, my knuckles were rapped and I no longer write or think that way. Sammy was rapping about some guy in L.A. It raps a defector over the knuckles instantly but, after that, lets bygones be bygones. 5 → rap somebody on/over the knuckles → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus rap ► see thesaurus at hit 2 music APM to say the words of a rap song 3 criticize CRITICIZE to criticize someone angrily – used especially in news reports SYN slam a film rapped by critics for its excessive violence 4 say ( also rap out ) SHOUT to say something loudly, suddenly, and in a way that sounds angry ‘Come on, ’ he rapped impatiently. rap on/at Angrily she rapped on his window. Related topics: Music rap rap 2 verb ( rapped, rapping ) 1 hit HIT to hit or knock something quickly several times → tap She rapped the table with her pen. Along with rap artists and basketball players, these are the black men the black boys look up to. What you hope he will do is to remain silent and let Preval make decisions and take the rap for unpopular choices. At the news conference, Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question. I just tell him to shut up and give him a sharp rap across the knuckles. The Roots rocked the house, bringing its own style of rap. Music ranges from funk and rap to house, but is always the last word in drop-dead cool. A few seconds later a rap on the side caused several sinuous silhouettes to leap back into the shadows. → rap sheet 4 → take the rap (for something) 5 → beat the rap 6 → a rap on/over the knuckles 7 → a bum/bad rap Examples from the Corpus rap 3 crime American English informal a statement by the police saying that someone is responsible for a serious crime SYN charge murder/robbery etc rap The kid’s been cited twice on drunk-driving raps. #Rapt def series#
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Music rap rap 1 / ræp / noun 1 music ( also rap music ) APM a type of popular music in which the words of a song are not sung, but spoken in time to music with a steady beat a popular rap song 2 knock HIT a series of quick sharp hits or knocks → tap She was woken by a sharp rap on the door.
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