pep
/pɛp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of personal equity plan (a former financial instrument).
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "At least a couple of weeks since I last slept, Kept takin' sleepers, but now I keep myself pepped."
- "She was particularly pleased with the wine, which at not infrequent intervals she tasted. Beyond all doubt it promised to be of vintage quality. Clearly the long hot summer had put more than a little pep into the berries."
- "“To set the record straight: No Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) were redacted from today’s released Epstein documents. All references to PEPs were disclosed in full. Do you not see Clinton’s face??” a justice department media relations account said on X."
- "PEPs are design documents that provide information to the Python community, describing new features (or proposed new features) for Python, its processes, or its environment."
- "Come a survey like last week’s PEP report on the extent of race prejudice, and another such wave looks like jogging the Government into introducing legislation dealing with housing and employment."
Etymology
Usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage