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Implication and Rap

noun

  • Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
    • usage: "his resignation had political implications"
  • A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
    • usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
  • An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
  • A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
  • A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
    • usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"
rap

noun

  • A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
    • usage: "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
  • A gentle blow.
  • The sound made by a gentle blow.
  • Voluble conversation.
  • 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.
  • The act of hitting vigorously.
    • usage: "he gave the table a whack"

verb

  • Strike sharply.
    • usage: "rap him on the knuckles"
  • Make light, repeated taps on a surface.
    • usage: "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
  • Perform rap music.
  • Talk volubly. .