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
eat (someone) out of house and home
to eat much food in someone's home
The two teenage boys were eating their parents out of house and home.