Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A representative.
  • noun A repertory company.
  • noun A repertory theater.
  • noun A repetition of a particular movement or action, as in weightlifting.
  • noun A ribbed or corded fabric of various materials, such as cotton, wool, or silk.
  • noun A unit of absorbed radiation dose, equal to the amount of ionizing radiation that will transfer 93 ergs of energy to 1 gram of water or living tissue.
  • noun Reputation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of reputation, formerly much used (as slang), especially in the asseveration upon or 'pon rep.
  • noun Same as repet.
  • noun A corded fabric the cords of which run across the width of the stuff.
  • noun In English school slang, an abbreviation of repetition.
  • noun An abbreviation of report
  • noun [capitalized] of Representative
  • noun of representing
  • noun of republic
  • noun [capitalized] of Republican.
  • noun A man or woman of loose character; a rip.
  • noun An inferior or worthless article.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; -- applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool.
  • noun A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable Short form of reputation.
  • noun weightlifting, countable : Short form of repetition.
  • noun countable Short form of representative.
  • noun Short form of repertory.
  • noun knitting repeat
  • verb To represent; to act as a representative for.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun informal abbreviation of `representative'
  • noun a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of French reps, from English ribs, pl. of rib.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[r(oentgen) + e(quivalent) + p(hysical).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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