Rapped vs Repped - What's the difference?
rapped | repped |
(rap)
(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
(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.
* 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "":
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
(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.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 19
, author=Josh Halliday
, title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?
, work=the Guardian
(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.
(rep)
(countable) .
(weightlifting, countable) .
(countable) .
(theater, uncountable) .
To represent; to act as a representative for.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Hal G. Evarts, title=The Settling of the Sage, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Bentley, the man who repped for Slade, carried the air and the rest joined in. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1994, date=November 4, author=Bill Wyman, title=Evanston's New Music Hall/Veruca Salt Grow Up/Schmitsville, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He left to help the Reader set up its national advertising arm, went back to Rolling Stone for five years, repped other magazines, and finally set up his own company, which currently scouts ads for the Atlantic, Spin, Discover, and a publication called Disney Adventures. }}
(knitting) repeat
* 2011 , Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love (page 44)
(textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
* 1923 , Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City
As verbs the difference between rapped and repped
is that rapped is (rap) while repped is (rep).rapped
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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
* ----repped
English
Verb
(head)rep
English
(wikipedia rep)Etymology 1
Clippings of various words beginning with "rep".Noun
(en noun)- Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep .
- I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps .
- When I requested tickets for Nassau, my rep just put me on hold.
- John Doe is a participant in the House of Rep s.
- She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.
Verb
(repp)citation
citation
- Rep' neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, ' rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more
Etymology 2
Back-formation from (reps), misinterpreted as a plural.Noun
(en noun)- Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.
