rep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: reps
Etymology: Clippings of various words beginning with rep.
Senses: examples: text: Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep.
text: Clean up your rep, your story's gettin' dusty / Wash out your mouth, your lies are gettin' rusty
ref: 1970, “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Alline Bullock (lyrics), Workin’ Together, performed by Ike & Tina Turner:
text: Remember. I got a rep to protect, OK, Shakespeare?
ref: 1982, Ken Finkleman, Grease 2, spoken by Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed):
glosses: Clipping of reputation.
examples: text: Holonym: sets
text: I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: Clipping of repetition.
examples: text: When I requested tickets for Nassau, my rep just put me on hold.
text: John Doe is a member of the House of Reps.
text: 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.
ref: 1950 October 28, “Diskers, AFRA Puzzle Singer Jurisdictions”, in Billboard, page 13:
glosses: Clipping of representative.
examples: text: 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, […]
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2022 August 6, Douglas Laman, “How Did Summer 2022 Become the Summer of Blink-and-You-Miss-'Em Queers?”, in Collider, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2022:
glosses: Clipping of representation.
examples: text: She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Clipping of repertory.
examples: text: […] and Henry Riser is still waiting for official casualty reps and family info on Doug Wheless.
ref: 1993, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly, volumes 52, issues 1-3, page 149:
text: A shell report, or "shell rep," was supposed to be sent in by any man who witnessed the fall of enemy artillery fire.
ref: 1996, Don Congdon, Combat World War II, volume 1, page 531:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Clipping of report.
examples: text: rep sneakers
text: 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.
ref: 2018 October 1, Alice Hines, “Meeting David, the God of Counterfeit Sneakers”, in Highsnobiety, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2024:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 January 16, Kish Lal, “Why this community of streetwear fanatics only buy fakes”, in Dazed, London: Dazed Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2023:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of replica.
Derived terms: half-rep
manufacturer's rep
mat rep
rep by pop
rep-tile
sales rep