Mud and Rap

noun

• Water soaked soil; soft wet earth.
  • synonyms: clay
• Slanderous remarks or charges.

verb

• Soil with mud, muck, or mire.
  • usage: "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
  • synonyms: mire, muck, muck up
• Plaster with mud. .

• (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
• (v.t.) To make muddy or turbid.
• (v.t.) To bury in mud.

MUD is a municipal utility district, which is a political subdivision that administers utility-related services, sometimes requiring the issue of special assessment bonds.

noun

• A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
  • usage: "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
  • synonyms: blame
• A gentle blow.
  • synonyms: strike, tap
• The sound made by a gentle blow.
  • synonyms: pat, tap
• 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.
  • synonyms: rap music, hip-hop
• The act of hitting vigorously.
  • usage: "he gave the table a whack"
  • synonyms: knock, belt, whack, whang

verb

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

• (v.) To hasten.
• (v.t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
• (v.t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
• (n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
• (v.i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
• (v.) 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.
• (n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
• (v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
• (v.) To exchange; to truck.
• (n.) 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.

RAP means Regulatory accounting procedures.