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rap

1  [rap] verb, rapped, rap⋅ping, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to strike, esp. with a quick, smart, or light blow: He rapped the door with his cane.
2. to utter sharply or vigorously: to rap out a command.
3. (of a spirit summoned by a medium) to communicate (a message) by raps (often fol. by out).
4. Slang. to criticize sharply: Critics could hardly wait to rap the play.
5. Slang. to arrest, detain, or sentence for a crime.
6. Metallurgy. to jar (a pattern) loose from a sand mold.
–verb (used without object)
7. to knock smartly or lightly, esp. so as to make a noise: to rap on a door.
8. Slang. to talk or discuss, esp. freely, openly, or volubly; chat.
9. Slang. to talk rhythmically to the beat of rap music.
–noun
10. a quick, smart, or light blow: a rap on the knuckles with a ruler.
11. the sound produced by such a blow: They heard a loud rap at the door.
12. Slang. blame or punishment, esp. for a crime.
13. Slang. a criminal charge: a murder rap.
14. Slang. response, reception, or judgment: The product has been getting a very bad rap.
15. Slang.
a. a talk, conversation, or discussion; chat.
b. talk designed to impress, convince, etc.; spiel: a high-pressure sales rap.
16. rap music.
—Idioms
17. beat the rap, Slang. to succeed in evading the penalty for a crime; be acquitted: The defendant calmly insisted that he would beat the rap.
18. take the rap, Slang. to take the blame and punishment for a crime committed by another: He took the rap for the burglary.
Origin:
1300–50; 1960–65 for def. 8; ME rappen (v.), rap(p)e (n.); akin to Sw rappa to beat, drub, G rappeln to rattle; senses “to talk,” “conversation, talk” perh. of distinct orig., though the hypothesis that it is a shortening of repartee is questionable

rap

3  [rap]
–verb (used with object), rapped or rapt, rap⋅ping. Archaic.
1. to carry off; transport.
2. to transport with rapture.
3. to seize for oneself; snatch.
Origin:
1520–30; back formation from rapt
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rap 1   (rāp)   
v.   rapped, rap·ping, raps

v.   tr.
  1. To hit sharply and swiftly; strike: rapped the table with his fist.
  2. To utter sharply: rap out a complaint.
  3. To criticize or blame.
v.   intr.
To strike a quick light blow: rapped on the door.
n.  
  1. A quick light blow or knock.
  2. A knocking or tapping sound.
  3. Slang
    1. A reprimand.
    2. A sentence to serve time in prison.
  4. Slang A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.

[Middle English rappen, possibly of imitative origin.]
rap 2   (rāp)   
tr.v.   rapt or rapped (rāpt), rap·ping, raps Archaic
  1. past participle rapt To enchant or seize with rapture.
  2. To snatch.

[Back-formation from rapt.]
rap 4   (rāp)   
n.  
  1. Slang A talk, conversation, or discussion.
    1. A form of popular music developed especially in African-American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.
    2. A composition or performance of such music.
intr.v.   rapped, rap·ping, raps
  1. Slang To discuss freely and at length.
  2. To perform rap music.

[Possibly from rap1.]
Our Living Language  : The culture of hip-hop has been the source of dozens of words and expressions in American English, of which rap is one of the most familiar. The word is probably a development ultimately of rap meaning "to hit." It shows up in the early 1900s in the extended meaning "to express orally," as used by so notable a figure as Winston Churchill in 1933. Over the next few decades it came to mean "to discuss or debate informally," a meaning that was well established in the African-American community by the late 1960s. A decade later the word was applied to an evolving style of music characterized by, among other things, beat-driven rhymes of an often improvisatory nature. The slang that is integral to the lyrics of rap continues to be a source of borrowings into colloquial American English; recent examples include chill, meaning "to calm down," and dis, meaning "to show disrespect to." These are but the latest examples in a long series of such borrowings from Black English stretching back a century or more, many of them directly from popular music lyrics or from musicians' lingo.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Rapped

Rapped\ (r[a^]pt), imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.

Rapped

Rapped\, imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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