See also: DEP, dép, dep., and đẹp

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

  1. Short for department.

Etymology 2 edit

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

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Verb edit

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 edit

Verb edit

dep

  1. depart or departs
  2. deposed

References edit

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

Anagrams edit

French edit

Etymology edit

Verlan form of pédé.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /dɛp/
  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun edit

dep m (plural deps)

  1. (verlan) gay; faggot

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch dep, deppen.

Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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

  1. base/imperative form of mengedep

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Middle English edit

Adjective edit

dep

  1. Alternative form of depe

Adverb edit

dep

  1. Alternative form of depe

References edit


Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Unknown.

Noun edit

dep n (plural depuri)

  1. fallow land

Declension edit

References edit

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