rep

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛp/

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• Rhymes: -ɛp

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

rep (plural reps)

1. (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?

2. (weightlifting, countable) Clipping of repetition.

   I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps.

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (theater) Clipping of repertory.

   She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.

6. (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.

rep (third-person singular simple present reps, present participle repping, simple past and past participle repped)

1. 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.

2. (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

3. (transitive, weightlifting) to lift for multiple reps

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

• repp

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

1. (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[.]

• EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, per, per-, per., pre, pre-

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈrəp/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈrɛp/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈrep/

rep

1. third-person singular present indicative form of rebre
2. second-person singular imperative form of rebre

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-r(j)ap.

rep

1. to stand up, to get up

• Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎, Santa Barbara: University of California

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• Rhymes: -ɛp

rep

1. first-person singular present indicative of reppen
2. imperative of reppen

• per

• reip (Nynorsk also)

From Old Norse reip.

rep n (definite singular repet, indefinite plural rep, definite plural repa or repene)

1. a rope

• tau

• “rep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Proto-Slavic *rępъ.

• IPA^(key): /rêːp/

rȇp m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑п)

1. tail

From Proto-Slavic *rępъ.

• IPA^(key): /rɛ́p/, /réːp/

rȅp or rẹ̑p m inan

1. tail

• “rep”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raipą, *raipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *roypnós (“strap, band, rope”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːp/, [ˈreə̯p]

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• Rhymes: -eːp

rep n

1. rope

• lina
• snöre
• tråd
• tåg

• rep in Svensk ordbok.

• Per, per

From English reply.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɹɛp̚˧˧] ~ [zɛp̚˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɹɛp̚˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹɛp̚˧˧]
• Phonetic: Rep

rep

1. (neologism, slang) to reply someone on social media