rep

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛp/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛp

Etymology 1

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

Noun

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

2. (informal) Clipping of reputation.

   Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep.

   • 1970, “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Alline Bullock (lyrics), 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?

4. (weightlifting, countable) Clipping of repetition.

   Holonym: sets

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

6. (informal) 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.

   • 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.

8. (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, pages 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^[1], archived from the original on 29 September 2022:

     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.

10. (theater) Clipping of repertory.

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

12. (military, in combination) Clipping of report.
    • 1993, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly, volumes 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.

14. (fashion, slang) Clipping of replica.

    rep sneakers

    • 2018 October 1, Alice Hines, “Meeting David, the God of Counterfeit Sneakers”, in Highsnobiety‎^[2], archived from the original on 17 March 2024:

      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.

    • 2020 January 16, Kish Lal, “Why this community of streetwear fanatics only buy fakes”, in Dazed‎^[3], London: Dazed Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-04:

      The forum is a democratised, judgement-free zone in which people share a love of high quality replicas or 'reps', where members are friendly and even supportive. They help one another to find the best sellers and sites to buy from, while discussing discrepancies between retail items and their counterfeit counterparts – from stitching and logos, to details and finishes.

Derived terms

• manufacturer's rep
• mat rep
• rep by pop
• rep-tile
• sales rep

 

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)

1. (informal, transitive, intransitive) To represent; to act as a representative for.
   • 1922, Hal G. Evarts, The Settling of the Sage‎^[4]:

     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^[5]:

     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. (informal) To display as a representative example.
   • 2023 March 3, Natasha Harding, “Olivia Rodrigo's leather boob tube will transport you back to 2001”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[6]:

     Last year, Olivia famously went full-2000s at a Grammys after-party she attended with Paris Hilton, where she repped a bright blue butterfly dress featuring a plunging neckline and dramatic ruffles. Now, for her latest look, she's gone and repped another recognisable combination: silk trousers and a leather boob tube.

   • 2023 May 19, Chelsey Sanchez, “Megan Fox Makes Her Red-Carpet Comeback in a Body-Sculpting Sheer Gown”, in Harper's Bazaar‎^[7]:

     As for her beauty look, the Jennifer’s Body star had dyed her long tresses a burnt-orange shade, and styled them slightly curled at the ends and down across her shoulders. She also repped a bubblegum-pink manicure with an abstract black design.

3. (knitting) Abbreviation of repeat.
   • 2011, Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love‎^[8], page 44:

     Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more

4. (transitive, weightlifting) To lift for multiple reps.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Etymology 2

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

Alternative forms

• repp

Noun

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, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 60:

     It was decorated in […] horsehair and red rep curtains[.]

   • 2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times‎^[9], →ISSN:

     I toted a (rather fetching) $100 Gucci 1955 Horsebit rep through a vacation across Europe […]

Translations

a type of fabric

• Bulgarian: рипс m (rips)
• Finnish: ripsi (fi)
• French: reps (fr) m
• Russian: репс (ru) m (reps)

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈrɛp]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈrəp]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈrep]

Verb

rep

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

Drung

Etymology

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

Verb

rep

1. to stand up, to get up

References

• Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎^[10], Santa Barbara: University of California

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛp

Verb

rep

1. inflection of reppen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• per

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• röp (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian hrōpa, from Proto-West Germanic *hrōpan.

Verb

rep

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to call

Conjugation

Conjugation of rep (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

infinitive I	rep
infinitive II	(tu) repen
past participle	repen
imperative singular	rep
imperative plural	rep’m
	present	past
1st singular	rep	rep
2nd singular	repst	repst
3rd singular	rept	rep
plural	rep	rep
	perfect	pluperfect
1st singular	haa repen	hed repen
2nd singular	heest repen	hedst repen
3rd singular	hee repen	hed repen
plural	haa repen	hed repen
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st singular	skal rep	wal rep
2nd singular	skääl rep	wääl rep
3rd singular	skal rep	wal rep
plural	skel rep	wel rep

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)

1. a rope

Synonyms

• tau

References

• “rep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rępъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rêːp/

Noun

rȇp m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑п)

1. 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

1. tail

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	rèp
gen. sing.	rêpa
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	rèp	rêpa	rêpi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	rêpa	rêpov	rêpov
dative (dajȃlnik)	rêpu	rêpoma	rêpom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	rèp	rêpa	rêpe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	rêpu	rêpih	rêpih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	rêpom	rêpoma	rêpi

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	rép
gen. sing.	répa
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	rép	répa	répi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	répa	répov	répov
dative (dajȃlnik)	répu	répoma	répom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	rép	répa	répe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	répu	répih	répih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	répom	répoma	répi

Further reading

• “rep”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse reip, 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

1. rope

Declension

Declension of rep

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rep	reps
	definite	repet	repets
plural	indefinite	rep	reps
	definite	repen	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˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɹɛp̚˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹɛp̚˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: Rep

Verb

rep

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