rep
See also: Rep, rep-, REP, rệp, řep, rep., Rep., and гер
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɛp/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛp
Etymology 1
Clippings of various words beginning with rep.
Noun
rep (plural reps)
- (informal) Clipping of reputation.
- Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep.
- 1970, Alline Bullock (lyrics), “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Workin’ Together, performed by Ike & Tina Turner:
- Clean up your rep, your story's gettin' dusty / Wash out your mouth, your lies are gettin' rusty
- 1982, Ken Finkleman, Grease 2, spoken by Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed):
- Remember. I got a rep to protect, OK, Shakespeare?
- (weightlifting, countable) Clipping of repetition.
- I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps.
- (informal) Clipping of representative.
- When I requested tickets for Nassau, my rep just put me on hold.
- John Doe is a participant in the House of Reps.
- 1950 October 28, “Diskers, AFRA Puzzle Singer Jurisdictions”, in Billboard, page 13:
- An upcoming problem to be thrashed out at a meeting of diskery reps and execs of the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA), is the degree of AFRA's jurisdictional claim over singers on records.
- (informal) Clipping of representation.
- 2022 February, Kosoko Jackson, “Please, Sir, Can I Have Some More: How Bread Crumbs of Queer Characters in Entertainment Helped Me Establish My Own Sense of Self”, in Jessica P. Pryde, editor, Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters, New York, NY: Berkley, →ISBN, page 144–145:
- This was the first episode of Degrassi I saw, and it was a formative episode. Why, might you ask? Not only because in 2003, there, again, wasn't much gay rep, but because of this interaction at the end of the episode that I stumbled upon, […]
- 2022 August 6, Douglas Laman, “How Did Summer 2022 Become the Summer of Blink-and-You-Miss-'Em Queers?”, in Collider:
- But for those looking for movies that have pronounced and meaningful queer rep, it might be best to shift focus over to smaller Summer 2022 titles like Neptune Frost, which deliver vibrant and righteous queer energy in every frame.
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- (theater) Clipping of repertory.
- She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.
- (military, in combination) Clipping of report.
- 1993, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly, volume 52, issues 1-3, page 149:
- […] and Henry Riser is still waiting for official casualty reps and family info on Doug Wheless.
- 1996, Don Congdon, Combat World War II, volume 1, page 531:
- A shell report, or "shell rep," was supposed to be sent in by any man who witnessed the fall of enemy artillery fire.
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Translations
reputation — see reputation
repetition — see repetition
representative — see representative
repertory — see repertory
Verb
rep (third-person singular simple present reps, present participle repping, simple past and past participle repped)
- To represent; to act as a representative for.
- 1922, Hal G. Evarts, The Settling of the Sage:
- Bentley, the man who repped for Slade, carried the air and the rest joined in.
- 1994 November 4, Bill Wyman, “Evanston's New Music Hall/Veruca Salt Grow Up/Schmitsville”, in Chicago Reader:
- He left to help the Reader set up its national advertising arm, went back to Rolling Stone for five years, repped other magazines, and finally set up his own company, which currently scouts ads for the Atlantic, Spin, Discover, and a publication called Disney Adventures.
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- (knitting) Abbreviation of repeat.
- 2011, Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love, page 44:
- Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more
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- (transitive, weightlifting) to lift for multiple reps
Etymology 2
Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.
Alternative forms
- repp
Noun
rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)
- (textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. [from 19th c.]
- 1923, Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City, New York: Boni & Liveright:
- Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 60:
- It was decorated in […] horsehair and red rep curtains[.]
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Translations
a type of fabric
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Anagrams
- EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, per, per-, per., pre, pre-
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈrəp/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈrɛp/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈrep/
Verb
rep
- third-person singular present indicative form of rebre
- second-person singular imperative form of rebre
Drung
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-r(j)ap.
Verb
rep
- to stand up, to get up
References
- Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung, Santa Barbara: University of California
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛp
Verb
rep
- first-person singular present indicative of reppen
- imperative of reppen
Anagrams
- per
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- reip (Nynorsk also)
Etymology
From Old Norse reip.
Noun
rep n (definite singular repet, indefinite plural rep, definite plural repa or repene)
- a rope
Synonyms
- tau
References
- “rep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *rępъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rêːp/
Noun
rȇp m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑п)
- tail
Declension
Declension of rep
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rȇp | rȅpovi |
| genitive | repa | repova |
| dative | repu | repovima |
| accusative | rep | repove |
| vocative | repe | repovi |
| locative | repu | repovima |
| instrumental | repom | repovima |
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *rępъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛ́p/, /réːp/
Noun
rȅp or rẹ̑p m inan
- tail
Inflection
| Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | rèp | ||
| gen. sing. | rêpa | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | rèp | rêpa | rêpi |
| accusative | rèp | rêpa | rêpe |
| genitive | rêpa | rêpov | rêpov |
| dative | rêpu | rêpoma | rêpom |
| locative | rêpu | rêpih | rêpih |
| instrumental | rêpom | rêpoma | rêpi |
| Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | rép | ||
| gen. sing. | répa | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | rép | répa | répi |
| accusative | rép | répa | répe |
| genitive | répa | répov | répov |
| dative | répu | répoma | répom |
| locative | répu | répih | répih |
| instrumental | répom | répoma | répi |
Further reading
- “rep”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swedish
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raipą, *raipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *roypnós (“strap, band, rope”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈreːp/, [ˈreə̯p]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eːp
Noun
rep n
- rope
Declension
| Declension of rep | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | rep | repet | rep | repen |
| Genitive | reps | repets | reps | repens |
See also
- lina
- snöre
- tråd
- tåg
Further reading
- rep in Svensk ordbok.
Anagrams
- Per, per
Vietnamese
Etymology
From English reply.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɹɛp̚˧˧] ~ [zɛp̚˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ɹɛp̚˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ɹɛp̚˧˧]
- Phonetic: Rep
Verb
rep
- (neologism, slang) to reply someone on social media