jeep

See also: Jeep and JEEP

English

A Willys MA, an iconic World War II jeep.

A shopping jeep

Pronunciation

• enPR: jēp, IPA^(key): /dʒiːp/
• Rhymes: -iːp

• Audio (Canada):

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Etymology 1

Derived from GP, initialism of general-purpose. Noun from General Purpose Vehicle (military light utility truck).

Adjective

jeep (not comparable)

1. (military) Pertaining to utility or general purpose.

Derived terms

• jeep carrier (aircraft carrier)
• jeep (light utility truck / offroad 4WD)

 

Noun

jeep (plural jeeps)

1. A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain.
2. A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland.
3. (genericized trademark) A sport utility vehicle or similar four-wheel-drive vehicle.

Derived terms

• jeepable
• jeeplike
• jeepney
• Jeep (trademark derived from the military vehicle)
• minijeep

 

Translations

vehicle

• Arabic: جِيب (ar) m (jīb)
• Armenian: ջիպ (hy) (ǰip)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吉普 (zh) (jípǔ), 吉普車／吉普车 (zh) (jípǔchē), 吉普车 (zh) (jípǔchē)

• Czech: džíp m
• Esperanto: ĵipo
• Faroese: jeppur m
• Finnish: jeeppi (fi)
• French: jeep (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯიპი (ǯiṗi)
• German: Jeep (de) m
• Hebrew: גִ׳יפּ
• Hindi: जीप (hi) (jīp)
• Hungarian: dzsip (hu)
• Icelandic: jeppi (is) m
• Irish: jíp m
• Japanese: ジープ (jīpu)
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• Khmer: ហ្ស៊ីប (ziip)
• Korean: 지프 (ko) (jipeu)
• Malay: jip
• Maori: tīpa
• Marathi: जीप f (jīp)
• Navajo: siláołtsooí bichidí
• Persian: جیپ (fa) (jip)
• Polish: dżip (pl) m
• Portuguese: jipe (pt)
• Russian: джип (ru) m (džip)
• Serbo-Croatian: džip (sh) m
• Slovak: džíp m
• Spanish: jeep (es) m
• Swedish: jeep (sv)
• Tagalog: dyip
• Tibetan: མོ་ཊ་ཇིབ (mo ṭa jib), ཅི་ཕུའི་ཁྲེ (ci phu'i khre)
• Turkish: cip (tr)

Verb

jeep (third-person singular simple present jeeps, present participle jeeping, simple past and past participle jeeped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To travel by jeep.
   • 1997, John H. Esterline, ‎Mae H. Esterline, Innocents Abroad: How We Won the Cold War (page 272)

     From there we jeeped over extraordinarily difficult roads to Marwari City, the site of Southern Philippine University, where I had been invited to address a convocation on the subject of "College Life in the United States."

Etymology 2

Disputed. Possibly from Eugene the Jeep, a character in Popeye cartoons.

Noun

jeep (plural jeeps)

1. (corrosion) A device for detecting discontinuity in a protective coating, also called a "holiday detector"
2. (Australia, regional) A covered shopping cart, also called a "shopping stroller".

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeep. Genericized trademark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(d)ʒip/

Noun

jeep f (plural jeeps)

1. jeep

Further reading

• “jeep”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From English jeep.

Noun

jeep f (uncountable)

1. jeep

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Spanish

Etymology

From English jeep.

Noun

jeep f (plural jeeps)

1. jeep

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Swedish

Etymology

From English jeep.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːp

Noun

jeep c

1. jeep

Declension

Declension of jeep
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	jeep	jeepen	jeepar	jeeparna
Genitive	jeeps	jeepens	jeepars	jeeparnas