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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rap \Rap\, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.]
   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.
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         Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
                                                  --Swift.
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         Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a
         rap, save with her consent.              --Mrs.
                                                  Alexander.
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   Not to care a rap, to care nothing.

   Not worth a rap, worth nothing.
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