1. an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city • Hypernyms: youth culture 2. 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 • Syn: rap, rap music • Derivationally related forms: rap (for: rap) • Hypernyms: popular music, popular music genre, black music, African-American music
