Definition of Rap

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Rap

Rap

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

To hasten.

To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

To exchange; to truck.

A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Related Definitions:

Admiration, Affect, And, Any, As, Away, Bear, Blow, By, Century, Coin, Containing, Current, Door, Early, Ecstasy, Eighteenth, Exchange, Facilitate, For, Free, Hasten, Hurry, In, Into, Knock, Lay, Light, Mind, Mold, Name, Of, Off, On, One, Or, Out, Part, Passed, Pattern, Popular, Quick, Rap, Rapt, Rapture, Removal, Seize, Self, Sharp, Skein, Smart, Snatch, So, Strike, That, The, To, Transport, Trifling, Truck, Value, With, Yarn

Rap Quotations

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
Tupac Shakur

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
Eminem

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Eminem

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
Spike Lee

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Chuck D.

Rap Translations

rap in French is claque
rap in German is Geplapper
rap in Italian is scapaccione
rap in Spanish is golpe seco, cachete

Quotes