to rap

Examples

• All

• I bet you haven't had anybody around like me to rap to.

  Easy Rider (1969)

• We'll rap about this later.

  Caged Heat (1974)

• Is that all you guys got to rap about?

  FM (1978)

• So what did you want to rap about?

  Fiction book (1996)

• Justice: So what does your cousin rap about?

  Fiction book (1993)

• Hey, man, I'd like to come in and rap for a minute.

  Grace of My Heart (1996)

• Let's rap about that.

  Blog text (2)

• Being productive, rapping, taking care of my kid, not playing Fortnite.

• So we went around to the house, my cousins were rapping and they said to Sean, why don't you rap to the beat?

• During lunch, they often rap about their favorite movies and music.

Synonyms

R

to riff

vsto rap

• Informal

10 6.3

To speak or play music by making it up as you go

focuses on talking freely and at length rather than creative improvisation

Antonyms

L

to listen

∞ 1.0

Pay attention to sounds or speech to hear and understand them

Idioms

R

to rap on the knuckles

• Informal

6.9

Gently punish or criticize someone for a small mistake

R

to rap someone’s knuckles

• Informal

8.1

To tell someone they are wrong in a mild, formal way

Compounds

R

rap sheet

• Jargon

38 7.6

A police list of a person's arrests and convictions

R

rap music

26 2.3

Music with fast rhyming speech spoken over a beat

B

bum rap

• Informal

8 9.1

Unfair blame or punishment for something you did not do

R

rap session

• Informal

1 7.7

An informal meeting where people openly share feelings and ideas

R

rap session

• Informal

1 7.0

An informal musical gathering where rappers perform and freestyle over beats

How Long

to ramble

• Informal

48 5.3

to rap

• Slang

19 7.4

to speak

∞ 1.0

to talk

∞ 1.0

to chat

• Informal

269 1.0

to say

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology