Look up: RAP

1. rap
   Rapid, rhythmic chant over a pre-recorded repetitive backing track. Rap emerged in New York in 1979 as part of the hip-hop culture, although the macho, swaggering lyrics with which it started have their roots in ritual boasts and insults. During the 1990s rap became increasingly commercial, and even its more extreme offshoots, such as gangs...
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2. RAP
   acronym: Remedial Action Program (DOE)
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3. rap
   [Adjective] A style of music where words are spoken in rhythm rather than sung.
   Example: The concert featured a new, popular rap artist.
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4. rap
   [n] - a gentle blow 2. [n] - (informal) voluble conversation 3. [n] - genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment 4. [v] - perform rap music 5. [v] - strike sharply 6. [v] - talk volubly
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5. RAP
   Rapid Application Prototyping
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6. Rap
   To perform a spoken rhythmic part to a music or percussion performance.
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7. RAP
   Recognised Air Picture
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8. RAP
   Rocket Assisted Projectile
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9. RAP
   Series of blast-type anti-personnel mines [RH]
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10. Rap
    a form of oral poetry which has a very strong rhythm and rapid pace. Associated with Caribbean and Afro-Caribbean cultures, has now been assimilated into other literary traditions. Rap is often used in modern music.
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11. rap
    Oncogene related to ras > ras.
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12. Rap
    Rap (răp) noun [ Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. Knight.
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13. Rap
    Rap intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rapped (răpt); present participle & verbal noun Rapping .] [ Akin to Swedish rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Danish ...
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14. Rap
    Rap transitive verb 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. « With one great peal they rap the door.» Prior. 2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
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15. Rap
    Rap noun A quick, smart blow; a knock.
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16. Rap
    Rap transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rapped (răpt), usually written Rapt ; present participle & verbal noun Rapping .] [ Middle English rapen ; akin to LG. ...
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17. Rap
    Rap noun [ Perhaps contr. from raparee .] A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. « Many counterfeits passed about under the ...
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18. rap
    <oncogene> Oncogene related to ras. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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19. rap
    hip-hop noun 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
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20. rap
    noun a gentle blow
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21. rap
    knock verb make light, repeated taps on a surface; `he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently`
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22. Rap
    • (v.) To hasten. • (v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. • (v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. • (n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock. • (v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to r...
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23. RAP
    See: Regulatory accounting procedures
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24. RAP
    Retained Access Power
    Found on http://www3.sympatico.ca/dhaughey/j1930.
    
    
25. rap
    
    • a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
    • a gentle blow
    • the sound made by a gentle blow
    • (informal) voluble conversation
    • the act of hitting vigorously
    
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