deepo

English edit

Noun edit

deepo (plural deepos)

Eye dialect spelling of depot.
- 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XX, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 190:
  "This is the nucleus, the nucleus," said the Colonel, unrolling his map. "Here is the deepo, the church, the City Hall and so on."
- 1904, Myrtle Reed, chapter VII, in The Master's Violin, New York, N.Y, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1911, page 92:
  You'll find it so in every place. Sometimes it's water, sometimes it's a car track, and sometimes a deepo, but it's always there, though more'n likely there ain't no real line exceptin' the one what's drawn in folks' fool heads.
- 1916 May, Clarie Marchand, “The Saleslady”, in Photoplay, volume IX, number 6, Chicago, I.L.: Photoplay Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 96:
  Then I put him on leash, and the two of us walked around and around that great granite temple of travel. It's the Parthenon of transportation. Marge; imagine my eyes for it after nineteen years of eye-feast on our "deepo!"
- 1940, Roger Burlingame, Engines of Democracy: Inventions and Society in Mature America, New York, N.Y., London: Charles Scribner's Sons, pages 399–400:
  Every day the trains disgorged their multitude of bewildered boys and girls, men and women, sick in their souls of cows and corn and spaces, into the iron "deepos" from which a trolley car, harassed by its curves, would carry them into a new life, for better or worse.
- 1953, Benjamin A[lbert] B[otkin], Alvin F[ay] Harlow, editors, A Treasury of Railroad Folklore: The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads, and Songs of the American Railroad Man, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., page 184:
  Therefore, the deepo was our leading social center. No one came into or left town unnoticed; he or she was sure to be seen boarding or leaving the train.