a rap on/over/across the knuckles

: a sharp blow or knock

: a sharp rebuke or criticism

: a negative and often undeserved reputation or charge

: to strike with a sharp blow

: to utter suddenly and forcibly

: to cause to be or come by raps

: to snatch away or upward

: enrapture

: a minimum amount or degree (as of care or consideration) : the least bit

: to talk freely and frankly

: to perform rap music

: talk, conversation

: a type of music of African-American origin in which rhythmic and usually rhyming speech is chanted to a musical accompaniment

: a rap song

: across a barrier or intervening (see intervene 4) space

: forward beyond an edge or brink and often down

: across the brim

used as a function word to indicate motion or situation in a position higher than or above another

used as a function word to indicate the possession of authority, power, or jurisdiction in regard to some thing or person

used as a function word to indicate superiority, advantage, or preference

: upper, higher

: outer, covering

: excessive

: to leap over

: so as to exceed or surpass

: excessive

: to an excessive degree

: from one side to the opposite side of : over, through

: on the opposite side of

: so as to intersect or pass through at an angle

: in a position reaching from one side to the other : crosswise

: to or on the opposite side

: so as to be understandable, acceptable, or successful

: being in a crossed position

: the rounded prominence formed by the ends of the two adjacent bones at a joint

: the joint of a knuckle

: a cut of meat consisting of the tarsal or carpal joint with the adjoining flesh

: to place the knuckles on the ground in shooting a marble

: to press or rub with the knuckles