Rap vs. Slap — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Rap and Slap

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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

Slap

A sharp blow made with the open hand or with a flat object; a smack.

Rap

Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner

We could be here all night rapping about spiritualism

Slap

The sound of such a blow.

Rap

Perform rap music

He raps under the name of Mr T

Slap

A sharp insult

A slap to one's pride.

Rap

A quick, sharp knock or blow

There was a confident rap at the door

Slap

To strike with the palm of the hand or a flat object

Slapped him in the face.

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

Slap

To cause to strike forcefully and loudly

"He took a clipping from his wallet and slapped it on the bar" (Nathanael West).

Rap

A lengthy or impromptu conversation

Dropping in after work for a rap over a beer

Slap

To put or place quickly or carelessly

Slapped butter on a bagel.

Rap

A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind

He's just been acquitted on a murder rap

Slap

To subject to a legal obligation, such as a fine or court order

Slapped him with a speeding ticket.

Slapped her with a lawsuit.

Rap

A person's reputation, typically a bad one

Why should drag queens get a bad rap?

Slap

To impose (a legal obligation) on someone

The judge slapped an additional fine on the unruly defendant.

Rap

The smallest amount (used for emphasis)

He doesn't care a rap whether it's true or not

Slap

To strike or beat with the force and sound of a slap

Waves slapping against the raft.

Rap

To hit sharply and swiftly; strike

Rapped the table with his fist.

Slap

Directly and with force

Drove slap into the guardrail.

Rap

To utter sharply

Rap out a complaint.

Slap

(countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

He gave me a friendly slap on the back as a sign of camaraderie.

Rap

To criticize or blame.

Slap

(countable) A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow.

The slap of my feet on the bathroom tiles

Rap

To strike a quick light blow

Rapped on the door.

Slap

The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing.

Rap

(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.

Slap

Makeup; cosmetics.

Rap

To perform rap music.

Slap

An eye-catching sticker used in street art.

Rap

To perform as rap music

Lyrics that were rapped.

Rapped the chorus of the song.

Slap

(transitive) To give a slap to.

She slapped him in response to the insult.

Rap

A quick light blow or knock.

Slap

(transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.

He slapped the reins against the horse's back.

Rap

A knocking or tapping sound.

Slap

(intransitive) To strike soundly against something.

The rain slapped against the window-panes.

Rap

A reprimand.

Slap

To be excellent.

The band's new single slaps.

Rap

A sentence to serve time in prison.

Slap

(transitive) To place, to put carelessly.

We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.

Rap

(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.

Slap

To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).

I was slapped with a parking fine.

Rap

The least bit

I don't give a rap about office politics. I don't care a rap what you do.

Slap

To play slap bass on (an instrument).

Rap

(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.

Slap

Exactly, precisely

He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.

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.

Slap

A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.

Rap

A composition or performance of such music.

Slap

To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.

Rap

(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.

Slap

With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.

Rap

(slang) Blame for something.

You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.

Slap

A blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

Rap

(informal) A casual talk.

Slap

The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

Rap

Rap music.

Slap

Hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand;

The impatient teacher slapped the student

A gunshot slapped him on the forehead

Rap

A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

Slap

Directly;

He ran bang into the pole

Ran slap into her

Rap

An appraisal.

Rap

A positive appraisal; a recommendation.

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