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rap
noun- a criminal charge US, 1903
- This time I’m pinning a murder rap on him, and he won’t dodge it. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 112, 1945
- He informed me cheerfully that he had strangled one man in Europe for raping his sister, stabbed another to death in a gambling fracas, and was now beating it from the States because of a third murder rap. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 189, 1946
- For playing at being tough and putting one over on the cops was fun, but now they realized they were facing a real rap[.] — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 159, 1947
- Besides, I was charged in State and State junk raps pile up like any other felony. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 95, 1953
- I’ve got a hell of a big income-tax rap hanging over me. — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 69, 1954
- I’ll go to San Quentin, ‘cause, Sal, one more rap of any kind and I go to San Quentin for life–that’s the end of me. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 185, 1957
- It’ll be hard as hell trying to pin a possession rap on him, and he knows it. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 128, 1960
- They were going to bust him and that’s a tough rap in California. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 199, 1961
- Maybe you’ve taken a couple of raps for hitting the hop over there[.] — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 103, 1963
- “How about this chickenshit rap they’re holding me on?” she bargained. — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 84, 1965
- Just what I needed–get busted for a littering rap on top of six counts of hitchhiking with long hair. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 81, 1968
- It was bullshit. The whole rap was a setup. — The Usual Suspects, 1995
- blame or responsibility US, 1927
- “He’s takin’ the rap for some dame.” — Donald Wilson, My Six Convicts, p. 51, 1951
- Y-you m-mean I–I should take the rap for you? — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 119, 1952
- a prison sentence US, 1927
- He’s on the lam from a pen back east, crashed out with twenty years to serve of a thirty-year bank-robber rap. — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 77, 1954
- They mentally calculated Murray’s age, and they figured this for a prison rap. — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 79, 1954
- He got sent to Starke on a homicide, shot some dude he was supposed to be bringing in. Doing his rap he was the man up there among the Latinos. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 29, 1995
- a clever line of improvised chat, speech or conversation US, 1967
Black coinage, adopted and popularised by hippies. - His rap was boss and really got across / When they saw that his eyes were wet. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 69, 1976
- Our rap was if girls could only look beyond the fact we didn’t have good looks [...] they would fall in love with us. — Howard Stern, Miss America, p. 4, 1995
- [W]ho else could have come up with the godson’s birthday rap, by the way. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 50, 2001
- a popular music genre in which a rhythmic lyric is spoken over a musical background US
- Hip-hop historians have determined that the first “rap” record (the Fatback Band’s “King Tim III [Personality Jock]”) preceded the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” by a few months in 1979. — The Source, p. 180, March 2002
- a meandering, unstructured group discussion US, 1967
- Please don’t dominate the rap, Jack / If you got nothin’ to say. — The Grateful Dead, New Speedway Boogie, 1970
- The rap was two or three minutes old before D.R. even realized that a strange man and woman had taken over the bus and were driving them away. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 69, 1971
- Julie had been the only other woman on the block who was heavily into macrame, and Kate missed her and the raps they’d had on lazy summer afternoons while they sat out on Julie’s patio tying knots in plant hangers. — Cyra McFadden, The Serial, p. 17, 1977
- the way in which a person expresses himself or herself US
- It is true I spend all my time pursuin’ good trim and, thank God, have a good rap. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 19, 1975
- a very small amount US
- I just didn’t give a rap anymore about school. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 61, 1973
▶ ride the rap
to serve a prison sentence without losing control, hope or sanity US- What you have to learn is how to ride the rap, do your own time, but get salty quick as you can. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 108, 1991
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