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(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
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(uncountable) Blame (for something).
(informal) A casual talk
(uncountable) Rap music.
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
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(dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
* Prior
(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
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(informal) To talk casually.
Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
* Jonathan Swift
* Mrs. Alexander
A whit; a jot.
A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
(anatomy) The malleus of the ear.
(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
(curling) The last rock in an end.
(Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
* J. H. Newman
To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
* Dryden
(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
(sports) To hit particularly hard.
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To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
(figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
Rap is a related term of hammer.
As a noun rap
is rap, rap music (music style).As a verb hammer is
.rap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rap, rappe, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(wikipedia rap)- The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap . He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
- You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap .
Synonyms
* (blame) fallDerived terms
* beat the rap * bum rap * rap music * rap song * take the rapEtymology 2
From (etyl) rappen, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) .Verb
(rapp)- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.
- With one great peal they rap the door.
- ''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
- He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
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Derived terms
* rap on * rapperSee also
* emcee * hip-hopEtymology 3
Uncertain.Etymology 4
Perhaps contracted from rapparee.Noun
(en noun)- Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps .
- Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap , save with her consent.
- I don't care a rap .
- That's not worth a rap .
Anagrams
* ----hammer
English
(wikipedia hammer)Noun
(en noun)- St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.
Derived terms
* ball peen hammer * claw hammer * cross peen hammer * hammer and sickle * hammerhead * hammer toe * sledgehammer * straight peen hammer * war hammer * Warrington hammerSee also
* malletVerb
(en verb)- hammered money
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- I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
- We hammered them 5-0!