rep

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See also: Rep, rep-, REP, rệp, řep, rep., Rep., and гер

English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɛp/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Etymology 1[edit]

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

Noun[edit]

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. (theater) Clipping of repertory.
    She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.
  5. (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.
Translations[edit]
reputation — see reputation
repetition — see repetition
representative — see representative
repertory — see repertory

Verb[edit]

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[1]:
      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[2]:
      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[3], page 44:
      Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more

Etymology 2[edit]

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

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[.]
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Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

rep

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

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

rep

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

Anagrams[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse reip

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a rope

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *rępъ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rȇp m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑п)

  1. tail

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *rępъ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rȅp or rẹ̑p m inan

  1. tail

Inflection[edit]

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[edit]

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

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rep n

  1. rope

Declension[edit]

Declension of rep 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative rep repet rep repen
Genitive reps repets reps repens

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English reply.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

rep

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