lepak
/ˌleɪˈpɑk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.
Intransitive verb
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "I think we should rally behind PM [the Prime Minister] for the sake of national unity. Without national unity, there will be more single mothers, abandoned babies, people lepaking (loitering) …"
- "We do things together and we lepak together quite a bit (hey, this is the solution to the lepak problem: the family that lepaks together stays together)."
- "The study's operational definition was that "a teenager lepaks if he gathers and remains in a public place without any special purpose other than chattering or laughing.""
- ""What do you think will happen?" a reporter asked a beautiful girl lepaking and smoking outside the Starbucks in Bukit Bintang Plaza. "Oh, at the bewitching midnight hour, everything will be back to normal. The office workers at Sri Hartamas will be back to their humdrum 9 to 5 jobs, no doubt bitching and wishing they were elsewhere.""
- "Cafes mushroomed everywhere in KL's [Kuala Lumpur's] trendiest spots, and big names such as Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and Starbucks made their presence felt. With these cafes, KLites often lepaked (hung out) way into the wee hours and now it has become a part of our pop culture."