Chap vs. Rap — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chap and Rap
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Chap
To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure
The headwind chapped the cyclist's lips.
Rap
Strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention
He stood up and rapped the table
She rapped on the window
Chap
To split or become rough and sore
Skin that chaps easily in winter.
Rap
Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner
We could be here all night rapping about spiritualism
Chap
A sore roughening or splitting of the skin, caused especially by cold or exposure.
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Rap
Perform rap music
He raps under the name of Mr T
Chap
A man or boy; a fellow.
Rap
A quick, sharp knock or blow
There was a confident rap at the door
Chap
A man, a fellow.
Who’s that chap over there?
Rap
A type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing
Rap artists
The label specializes in rap and modern soul
Chap
A customer, a buyer.
Rap
A lengthy or impromptu conversation
Dropping in after work for a rap over a beer
Chap
(Southern US) A child.
Rap
A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind
He's just been acquitted on a murder rap
Chap
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
Rap
A person's reputation, typically a bad one
Why should drag queens get a bad rap?
Chap
(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
Rap
The smallest amount (used for emphasis)
He doesn't care a rap whether it's true or not
Chap
(Scotland) A blow; a rap.
Rap
To hit sharply and swiftly; strike
Rapped the table with his fist.
Chap
The jaw.
Rap
To utter sharply
Rap out a complaint.
Chap
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Rap
To criticize or blame.
Chap
Clipping of chapter
Rap
To strike a quick light blow
Rapped on the door.
Chap
(intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
Rap
(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.
Chap
(transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Rap
To perform rap music.
Chap
To strike, knock.
Rap
To perform as rap music
Lyrics that were rapped.
Rapped the chorus of the song.
Chap
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
Rap
A quick light blow or knock.
Chap
To strike; to beat.
Rap
A knocking or tapping sound.
Chap
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
Rap
A reprimand.
Chap
To strike; to knock; to rap.
Rap
A sentence to serve time in prison.
Chap
To bargain; to buy.
Rap
(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.
Chap
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
Rap
The least bit
I don't give a rap about office politics. I don't care a rap what you do.
Chap
A division; a breach, as in a party.
Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
Rap
(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.
Chap
A blow; a rap.
Rap
A form of popular music developed especially in African American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.
Chap
One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; - commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps.
Rap
A composition or performance of such music.
Chap
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
Rap
(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
Chap
A buyer; a chapman.
If you want to sell, here is your chap.
Rap
(slang) Blame for something.
You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
Chap
A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
Rap
(informal) A casual talk.
Chap
A boy or man;
That chap is your host
There's a fellow at the door
He's a likable cuss
Rap
Rap music.
Chap
A long narrow depression in a surface
Rap
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
Chap
A crack in a lip caused usually by cold
Rap
An appraisal.
Chap
(usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs
Rap
A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
Chap
Crack due to dehydration;
My lips chap in this dry weather
Rap
A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
Rap
(historical) 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.
Rap
A whit; a jot.
I don't care a rap.
That's not worth a rap.
Rap
Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution
Rap
A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
Rap
(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
Rap
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
Rap
(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Rap
To utter quickly and sharply.
The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
Rap
(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
He started to rap after listening to Tupac.
He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
Rap
To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
Rap
(transitive) To seize and carry off.
Rap
(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
Rap
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
Rap
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Rap
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 name of raps.
Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.
Rap
Conversation; also, rapping.
Rap
A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.
Rap
To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
Rap
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
With one great peal they rap the door.
Rap
To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Rap
To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
And through the Greeks and Ilians they raptThe whirring chariot.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove.
Rap
To hasten.
Rap
To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
Rapt into future times, the bard begun.
Rap
To exchange; to truck.
Rap
To engage in a discussion, converse.
Rap
To perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.
All they could rap and rend and pilfer.
A judge who rapped out a great oath.
Rap
A reproach for some lapse or misdeed;
He took the blame for it
It was a bum rap
Rap
A gentle blow
Rap
The sound made by a gentle blow
Rap
Voluble conversation
Rap
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
Rap
The act of hitting vigorously;
He gave the table a whack
Rap
Strike sharply;
Rap him on the knuckles
Rap
Make light, repeated taps on a surface;
He was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently
Rap
Perform rap music
Rap
Talk volubly
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