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▪ I. † strep1 Mining. Obs.—1.
Corruption of or mistake for strake n.3
1778[see strake n.3 a].
▪ II. strep2|strɛp|
colloq. abbrev. of (a) streptococcus (freq. attrib.); (b) streptomycin.
(a)1927Amer. Speech II. 313/2 A streptococcus infection of the throat becomes a ‘strep throat’. 1941R. Chandler Let. 1 Feb. (1981) 19 Awfully sorry to hear you had been sick. I know what the streps can do to a person. 1956[see staph]. 1962A. Lurie Love & Friendship iv. 68 There's germs flying round in the air.., pneumonia and bronchitis and strep. 1966H. Kemelman Saturday the Rabbi went Hungry iv. 25 It's a strep infection, the doctor says. 1974[see shet, shed]. 1980Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 14/6 Strep infections can cause breathing disorders, shock, bleeding and meningitis in newborn babies.
(b)1959J. Braine Vodi vi. 85 They'd tried strep. and P.A.S. 1961C. Cockburn View from West i. 6 Hallucinated myself by the effects of streptomycin—we soon all got very matey with this potent drug and called it strep. |