crep

See also: črep

English

Etymology

From Jamaican Creole crep.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹɛp/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Noun

crep (plural creps)

  1. (MLE, slang) trainer (sports shoe)
    • 2013, Mark Dawson, The Cleaner (page 7)
      The others hollered. “He's sicked up all over his creps!” Chips exclaimed.
    • 2011, Chyna Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang:
      He skulked, like his creps was made out of lead. His skin, normally like polished bronze, was drained flat, as if he'd been bleached. When I smiled and said hello to him, Husayn looked at me from fifty miles away.

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin crepō. Compare Romanian crăpa, crăp.

Verb

crep (past participle cripatã or cãrpate)

  1. I crack, break.

Catalan

Etymology

From French crêpe.

Noun

crep m or f (plural creps)

  1. crepe

Further reading


Jamaican Creole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹɛp/
  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Noun

crep (plural: crep dem or creps dem, quantified: crep)

  1.  athletic shoe, trainer

Descendants

  • English: crep

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier *črěpъ, by liquid metathesis from Proto-Slavic *čerpъ, from Proto-Indo-European *kerpos.

Noun

crȇp m (Cyrillic spelling цре̑п)

  1. tile (for the roof)

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French crêpe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾep/ [ˈkɾep]
  • Rhymes: -ep
  • Syllabification: crep

Noun

crep m (plural creps)

  1. crepe

Further reading

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