Rap vs. Rip — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rap and Rip
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Definitions
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
Rip➦
A stretch of water in a river, estuary, or tidal channel made rough by waves meeting an opposing current.
Rap➦
Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner
We could be here all night rapping about spiritualism
Rip➦
A rip current.
Rap➦
Perform rap music
He raps under the name of Mr T
Rip➦
A dissolute person.
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Rap➦
A quick, sharp knock or blow
There was a confident rap at the door
Rip➦
An old or worthless horse.
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
Rip➦
A tear (in paper, etc.).
Rap➦
A lengthy or impromptu conversation
Dropping in after work for a rap over a beer
Rip➦
A type of strong, rough tide or current.
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Rap➦
A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind
He's just been acquitted on a murder rap
Rip➦
(Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
Rap➦
A person's reputation, typically a bad one
Why should drag queens get a bad rap?
Rip➦
(slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
Rap➦
The smallest amount (used for emphasis)
He doesn't care a rap whether it's true or not
Rip➦
(slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
Rap➦
To hit sharply and swiftly; strike
Rapped the table with his fist.
Rip➦
A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
Rap➦
To utter sharply
Rap out a complaint.
Rip➦
(slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
Rap➦
To criticize or blame.
Rip➦
Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?
Rap➦
To strike a quick light blow
Rapped on the door.
Rip➦
Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
Rap➦
(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.
Rip➦
A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
Rap➦
To perform rap music.
Rip➦
Ellipsis of ripsaw.
Rap➦
To perform as rap music
Lyrics that were rapped.
Rapped the chorus of the song.
Rip➦
A joyride.
Rap➦
A quick light blow or knock.
Rip➦
A wicker basket for fish.
Rap➦
A knocking or tapping sound.
Rip➦
A worthless horse; a nag.
Rap➦
A reprimand.
Rip➦
An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
Rap➦
A sentence to serve time in prison.
Rip➦
(transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
To rip a garment; to rip up a floor
Rap➦
(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.
Rip➦
(intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.
Rap➦
The least bit
I don't give a rap about office politics. I don't care a rap what you do.
Rip➦
(transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
Rap➦
(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.
Rip➦
To move quickly and destructively.
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.
Rip➦
(woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
Rap➦
A composition or performance of such music.
Rip➦
To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
Rap➦
(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
Rip➦
To take a "hit" of marijuana.
Rap➦
(slang) Blame for something.
You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
Rip➦
(slang) To fart.
Rap➦
(informal) A casual talk.
Rip➦
To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
Rap➦
Rap music.
Rip➦
To steal; to rip off.
Rap➦
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
Rip➦
To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
Rap➦
An appraisal.
Rip➦
(archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.
Rap➦
A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
Rip➦
To surf extremely well.
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.
Rip➦
A wicker fish basket.
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.
Rip➦
A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
Rap➦
A whit; a jot.
I don't care a rap.
That's not worth a rap.
Rip➦
A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
Rap➦
Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution
Rip➦
A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
Rap➦
A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
Rip➦
To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; - commonly used with up, open, off.
Rap➦
(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
Rip➦
To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
Rap➦
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
Rip➦
To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; - usually with up.
They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.
For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely.
Rap➦
(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Rip➦
To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
Rap➦
To utter quickly and sharply.
The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
Rip➦
A dissolute man in fashionable society
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.
Rip➦
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
There was a rip in his pants
She had snags in her stockings
Rap➦
To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
Rip➦
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
Rap➦
(transitive) To seize and carry off.
Rip➦
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;
He gave the envelope a vigorous rip
Rap➦
(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
Rip➦
Tear or be torn violently;
The curtain ripped from top to bottom
Pull the cooked chicken into strips
Rap➦
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
Rip➦
Move precipitously or violently;
The tornado ripped along the coast
Rap➦
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Rip➦
Cut (wood) along the grain
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.
Rip➦
Criticize or abuse strongly and violently;
The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly
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
