Criticize (3 letters)

{ Answer }

RAP

{ Related Clues }

Blame
Bum ___
Hammer
Knap
Knock
___ session
Thwack
Chat informally
Chew the fat
Con's sentence
Criticize sharply
Grammy category
Hammer specialty
Hip-hop
Kind of sheet
Least bit
Seance sound
Séance sound
Sharp criticism
Sharp knock
Shoot the breeze
Song from the 'hood
Sound at the door
Spirited response?
Spook signal
90's music genre
Emulate the Beastie Boys
Fresh Prince medium
Q-Tip specialty
Run-D.M.C.'s music
Offering from Lil Jon or Fat Joe

{ Tags }

bit, breeze, category, chew, criticize, emulate, fat, genre, grammy, kind, knock, least, music, rap, record, seance, section, session, shoot, sound, store

{ Notes }

The answer RAP is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.

{ Definition }

RAP as a noun:

1. (blame, rap) = a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"

2. (rap, strike, tap) = a gentle blow

3. (pat, rap, tap) = the sound made by a gentle blow

4. voluble conversation

5. (rap, rap music, hip-hop) = 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

6. (knock, belt, rap, whack, whang) = the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"

RAP as a verb:

1. (rap, knap) = strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles"

2. (tap, rap, knock, pink) = make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

3. perform rap music

4. talk volubly