dep

See also: DEP, dép, dep., and đẹp

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Delaware Pidgin.

Symbol

dep

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Pidgin Delaware.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pidgin Delaware terms

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of department, originally slang from Imperial College, first attested c. 1930.

Noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

1. Clipping of department.

Etymology 2

• Abbreviation of several English terms that begin with "dep"
• Clipping of several English terms that begin with "dep"

Alternative forms

• dep.
• (Canada): dép, dép.

Noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

1. Clipping of deposit.
2. Clipping of departure.
3. (law, informal) A deposition.

   Don't worry too much if they don’t give us everything we need in their rog answers; we'll fill the gaps in dep.

4. (informal) A deputy.
   • 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:

     [A]s soon as the door opened we could see it was the deputy governor coming through. […] We watched as the dep crossed the football field towards us.

5. (Canada, Quebec, informal) A dépanneur.
6. (computing, informal) A dependency.

See also

• sensory dep
• sleep dep

Verb

dep (third-person singular simple present deps, present participle depping, simple past and past participle depped)

1. (informal) To deputize.
   • 2004, John Chilton, Who's Who of British Jazz: 2nd Edition, page 212:

     Regularly with Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band for almost a year in the late 1990s and later deputized in the band, including a tour of Denmark (2003), also depped in Chris Barber's Band for Swedish tour (2001).

Translations

To deputize

• German: aushelfen (de)

Verb

dep

1. depart or departs
2. deposed

Anagrams

• -ped, DPE, EDP, EPD, PDE, PED, Pde, ped

French

Etymology

Verlan form of pédé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛp/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

dep m (plural deps)

1. (Verlan) gay; faggot

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch dep, deppen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛp]
• Hyphenation: dèp

Verb

dèp (base/imperative dep, active mengedep, passive didep)

1. base/imperative form of mengedep

Derived terms

• didep
• mengedep

Further reading

• “dep”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Middle English

Adjective

dep

1. alternative form of depe

Adverb

dep

1. alternative form of depe

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

dep n (plural depuri)

1. fallow land

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	dep	depul		depuri	depurile
genitive-dative	dep	depului		depuri	depurilor
vocative	depule			depurilor

References

• “dep”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
• dep in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN