rap

the act of hitting vigorously

voluble conversation

a gentle blow

the sound made by a gentle blow

a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

“it was a bum rap”

make light, repeated taps on a surface

genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

strike sharply

“rap him on the knuckles”

perform rap music

talk volubly