freep
See also: FREEP
English
Alternative forms
- FReep
- Freep
Etymology
Back-formation from Freeper, from The Free Republic, a popular conservative forum.
Verb
freep (third-person singular simple present freeps, present participle freeping, simple past and past participle freeped)
- (US, politics, Internet slang) To subject to a mass internet or email assault aimed at pushing a particular point of view.
- 2000, February 28, “James V. Grimaldi”, in Hearsay: The Lawyer's Column; Keeping Up With the Gundersons:
- Hearsay even got "freeped." "Freepers," followers of a rightist Web site called Free Republic, orchestrated a "Freeper Call to Action."
- 2005, August 22, “Tim Cuprisin”, in Contest may not be clear of 'freep':
- Freeping is one of the reasons Internet surveys are useless as a gauge of public opinion because the results can reflect an organized campaign.
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Related terms
- Freeper
- freeping