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This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in legal citation. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Judges and Officials", Table T11, p. 443.

アナグラム

• EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, per, per-, per., pre, pre-

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹɛp/
• 韻: -ɛp

語源 1

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

名詞

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

1. (informal) Clipping of reputation.

   Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep.

   • 1970, “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Alline Bullock (lyrics), Workin’ Together, performed by Ike & Tina Turner:

     Clean up your rep, your story's gettin' dusty / Wash out your mouth, your lies are gettin' rusty

   • 1982, Ken Finkleman, Grease 2, spoken by Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed):

     Remember. I got a rep to protect, OK, Shakespeare?

2. (weightlifting, countable) Clipping of repetition.

   Holonym: sets

   I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps.

3. (informal) 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.

   • 1950 October 28, “Diskers, AFRA Puzzle Singer Jurisdictions”, in Billboard, page 13:

     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.

4. (informal) Clipping of representation.
   • 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:

     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, […]

   • 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 September 2022:

     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.

5. (theater) Clipping of repertory.

   She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.

6. (military, in combination) Clipping of report.
   • 1993, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly, volumes 52, issues 1-3, page 149:

     […] and Henry Riser is still waiting for official casualty reps and family info on Doug Wheless.

   • 1996, Don Congdon, Combat World War II, volume 1, page 531:

     A shell report, or "shell rep," was supposed to be sent in by any man who witnessed the fall of enemy artillery fire.

7. (fashion, slang) Clipping of replica.

   rep sneakers

   • 2018 October 1, Alice Hines, “Meeting David, the God of Counterfeit Sneakers”, in Highsnobiety‎, archived from the original on 17 March 2024:

     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.

   • 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 4 October 2023:

     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.

派生語

動詞

rep (third-person singular simple present reps, present participle repping, simple past and past participle repped)

1. (informal, ambitransitive) To represent; to act as a representative for.
   • 1922, Hal G. Evarts, The Settling of the Sage‎:

     Bentley, the man who repped for Slade, carried the air and the rest joined in.

   • 1994 November 4, Bill Wyman, “Evanston's New Music Hall/Veruca Salt Grow Up/Schmitsville”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     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, Discover, and a publication called Disney Adventures.

2. (informal) To display as a representative example.
   • 2023 March 3, Natasha Harding, “Olivia Rodrigo's leather boob tube will transport you back to 2001”, in Cosmopolitan‎:

     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 look, she's gone and repped another recognisable combination: silk trousers and a leather boob tube.

   • 2023 May 19, Chelsey Sanchez, “Megan Fox Makes Her Red-Carpet Comeback in a Body-Sculpting Sheer Gown”, in Harper's Bazaar‎:

     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 an abstract black design.

3. (knitting, crochet) Abbreviation of repeat.
   • 2011, Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love‎, page 44:

     Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more

   • 2011 August 23, Carmen Heffernan, “How to make colourful crocheted flowers”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 24 December 2023:

     Rep from * to * 6 times. Fasten off.

4. (transitive, weightlifting) To lift for multiple reps.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

語源 2

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

別の表記

• repp

名詞

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

1. (textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. [from 19th c.]
   • 1923, Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City, New York: Boni & Liveright:

     Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 60:

     It was decorated in […] horsehair and red rep curtains[.]

   • 2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     I toted a (rather fetching) $100 Gucci 1955 Horsebit rep through a vacation across Europe […]

アナグラム

• EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, per, per-, per., pre, pre-