rep

noun
/ɹɛp/UK

Etymology

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

Definitions

  1. Clipping of reputation.

    • Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep.
    • Clean up your rep, your story's gettin' dusty / Wash out your mouth, your lies are gettin' rusty
    • Remember. I got a rep to protect, OK, Shakespeare?
  2. Clipping of repetition.

    • Holonym: sets
    • I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps.
  3. Clipping of representative.

    • When I requested tickets for Nassau, my rep just put me on hold.
    • John Doe is a member of the House of Reps.
    • 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. + 11 more definitions
    1. Clipping of representation.

      • 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.
    2. Clipping of repertory.

      • She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.
    3. Clipping of report.

      • […] and Henry Riser is still waiting for official casualty reps and family info on Doug Wheless.
      • A shell report, or "shell rep," was supposed to be sent in by any man who witnessed the fall of enemy artillery fire.
    4. Clipping of replica.

      • rep sneakers
      • Overall, David is cagey when talking about reps, like someone might be while talking about an ex. That's understandable. But I wonder if Soulsfeng will ever reach the notoriety that David the rep seller did.
    5. To represent

      To represent; to act as a representative for.

      • Bentley, the man who repped for Slade, carried the air and the rest joined in.
    6. To display as a representative example.

    7. Abbreviation of repeat.

      • Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more
    8. To lift for multiple reps.

    9. A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or…

      A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.

      • Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.
      • It was decorated in […] horsehair and red rep curtains[.]
      • I toted a (rather fetching) $100 Gucci 1955 Horsebit rep through a vacation across Europe […]
    10. Clipping of Republican.

    11. Abbreviation of Republican Party.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA