Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal (Irish) past participle of leap.
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Examples
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Thus, in the first hour of closure, a bored reporter came out, read the smoothly-phrased notice, and lepped it in to the desk.
The Galaxy Primes 1927
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Well, sah, when I seen them Mr. Whitemen makin 'fer me, I jes' rolled down de hill to de ditch, an 'plantin' my gun ba'net down in de water, I lepped acrost to de other side.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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And they never go to Mass; and, as to marriage, some used to say they lepped the budget, but it's more likely they have no marriage at all.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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"We must mount them on good horses and I don't want my entire stable ruined by men who have never lepped a fence."
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Various 1887
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