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, A heavy or quick, smart, blow; a sharp or resounding knock; concussion from striking, A reprimand, intransitive verb_ To hit sharply and swiftly; strike, To criticize or blame, To perform rap music, transitive verb_ To snatch away; to seize and hurry off, To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture, 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

To obtain or appropriate unscrupulously or forcibly, To make a grasping or snatching motion, verb_ to make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something), to grip the attention; to enthrall, noun_ the act of catching an object with the hands, a mechanical device for gripping an object, a mechanical device that grabs

(law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment