Rap and Utter

rap

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

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

RAP means Regulatory accounting procedures.

utter

Articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise.
- usage: "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse"
- synonyms: express, verbalize, verbalise, give tongue to
Express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words. )
- usage: "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"
- synonyms: emit, let out, let loose
Express in speech.
- usage: "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
- synonyms: talk, speak, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Put into circulation.
- usage: "utter counterfeit currency"

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.
- usage: "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
- synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, unadulterated
Complete.
- usage: "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness"
- synonyms: dead

(a.) hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; -- often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes.
(a.) To give public expression to; to disclose; to publish; to speak; to pronounce.
(a.) To put forth or out; to reach out.
(a.) Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial.
(a.) Situated on the outside or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.
(a.) Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter darkness.
(a.) Outer.
(a.) To dispose of in trade; to sell or vend.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary