dep

See also: DEP, dép, dep., and đẹp

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of department, originally slang from Imperial College, first attested c. 1930.[1]

Noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

  1. Short for department.

Etymology 2

  • Abbreviation of several English terms that begin with "dep"
  • Clipping of several English terms that begin with "dep"

Alternative forms

Noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

  1. Short for deposit.
  2. Short for departure.
  3. (law, informal) A deposition.
    Don't worry too much if they don’t give us everything we need in their rog answers; we'll fill the gaps in dep.
  4. (informal) A deputy.
    • 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:
      [A]s soon as the door opened we could see it was the deputy governor coming through. [] We watched as the dep crossed the football field towards us.
  5. (Canada, Quebec, informal) A dépanneur.
  6. (computing, informal) A dependency.
See also

Verb

dep (third-person singular simple present deps, present participle depping, simple past and past participle depped)

  1. (informal) To deputize.
    • 2004, John Chilton, Who's Who of British Jazz: 2nd Edition, page 212:
      Regularly with Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band for almost a year in the late 1990s and later deputized in the band, including a tour of Denmark (2003), also depped in Chris Barber's Band for Swedish tour (2001).
Translations

Verb

dep

  1. depart or departs
  2. deposed

References

  1. Partridge, Eric (1937) A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, page 300

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Verlan form of pédé.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛp/
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Noun

dep m (plural deps)

  1. (Verlan) gay; faggot

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch dep, deppen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɛp]
  • Hyphenation: dèp

Verb

dèp (base/imperative dep, active mengedep, passive didep)

  1. base/imperative form of mengedep

Derived terms

Further reading

Middle English

Adjective

dep

  1. Alternative form of depe

Adverb

dep

  1. Alternative form of depe

References

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Unknown.

    Noun

    dep n (plural depuri)

    1. fallow land

    Declension

    References

    • dep in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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