n.
1.a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
2.a gentle blow
3.the sound made by a gentle blow
4.voluble conversation
5.genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment
6.the act of hitting vigorously rap v.
1.strike sharply
2.make light, repeated taps on a surface
3.perform rap music
4.talk volubly
Idiom of the Day
make (something) from scratch
to make something by starting with the basic ingredients
We made the soup from scratch.