rep

Clipping of reputation.

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  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 - 1970, “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Alline Bullock (lyrics), Workin’ Together, performed by Ike & Tina Turner:
    • Remember. I got a rep to protect, OK, Shakespeare? - 1982, Ken Finkleman, Grease 2, spoken by Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed):
  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. - 1950 October 28,...
  4. Clipping of representation.
    • 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...
    • 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...
  5. Clipping of repertory.
    • She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.
  6. Clipping of report.
    • […] and Henry Riser is still waiting for official casualty reps and family info on Doug Wheless. - 1993, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly, volumes 52, issues 1-3, page 149:
    • A shell report, or "shell rep," was supposed to be sent in by any man who witnessed the fall of enemy artillery fire. - 1996, Don Congdon, Combat World War II, volume 1, page 531:
  7. 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. - 2018...
    • 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...

Origin

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

Forms

reps

Derived

half-rep manufacturer's rep mat rep rep by pop repmobile rep-tile sales rep

Noun business, manufacturing

  1. 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. - 1923, Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City, New York: Boni & Liveright:
    • It was decorated in […] horsehair and red rep curtains[.] - 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 60:
    • I toted a (rather fetching) $100 Gucci 1955 Horsebit rep through a vacation across Europe […] - 2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Origin

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

Forms

reps repp

Verb

  1. To represent; to act as a representative for.
    • Bentley, the man who repped for Slade, carried the air and the rest joined in. - 1922, Hal G. Evarts, The Settling of the Sage:
    • 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,...
  2. To display as a representative example.
    • 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...
    • 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...
  3. Abbreviation of repeat.
    • Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more - 2011, Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love, page 44:
    • Rep from * to * 6 times. Fasten off. - 2011 August 23, Carmen Heffernan, “How to make colourful crocheted flowers”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2023:
  4. To lift for multiple reps.

Forms

reps repping repped