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▪ I. jeep, n. orig. U.S.|dʒiːp|
[f. the initials G.P. (dʒiː piː) ‘general purpose’, prob. influenced by the name ‘Eugene the Jeep’, a creature of amazing resource and power, first introduced into the cartoon strip ‘Popeye’ on 16 March 1936 by his creator E. C. Segar.]
A small, sturdy, four-wheel-drive army vehicle, used chiefly for reconnaissance; a similar vehicle in non-military use; hence (colloq.) any vehicle. Also attrib. and Comb.
For an earlier application in 1937 of the term to a commercial motor vehicle, see 1944 Amer. N. & Q. May 26/2 and June 43/1.
1941Amer. Speech XVI. 166/2 Jeep, a term applied to bantam cars, and occasionally to other motor vehicles; in the Air Corps, the Link trainer; in the Armored Force, the 1½ ton command car. 1941J. Daniels Tar Heels 47 Beer wagons moved on the road with the brown jeeps of soldiers and marines. 1942News Chron. 7 Apr. 4/5 The light armoured car which hauls the gun and carries the gun crew is called a jeep. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 24 The Canadians..put their dollars on a Jeep. There were a few of these contraptions beetling about the countryside. 1943Archit. Rev. XCIV. 52 The Jeep is no family car, but it has points that private-car designers might well study. 1945Trade Marks Jrnl. 22 Aug. 423/2 Jeep...Motor cars, and parts thereof..Willys-Overland Motors Inc.., Toledo, State of Ohio, United States of America; manufacturers. 1946R.A.F. Jrnl. May 174 The men and machines, drivers and Jeeps..have finished their job. 1950G. Greene Third Man iv. 37 A jeep came tearing round the corner and bowled him over. 1952Morin & Smith tr. Herzog's Annapurna ii. 30 The jeep now took us along a dusty stony road. 1954D. Dodge Lights of Skaro vi. 213 We were picked up by a jeep-load of soldiers. 1955Sci. News Let. 18 June 396/3 The cosmetic preparations women use to remove superfluous hair might help speed recovery from jeep disease. This is the slow-healing painful infection at the base of the spine which thousands of World War II soldiers developed from riding in jeeps. Doctors called it pilonidal sinus. 1958Punch 22 Jan. 141/1 We flew over more icebergs and then landed at Gander, Newfoundland, where people in woolly tartan jackets drove around in jeeps. 1960Guardian 25 Feb. 9/4 The arrival of jeep-loads of armed police. 1966F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 64 Here comes the police jeep. 1967Wodehouse Company for Henry ix. 155 Repeated inquiries as to whether his darned jeep couldn't do more than three miles an hour. 1971Country Life 19 Aug. 431/1 There are no paths, pony tracks or jeep roads to this inaccessible spot. 1973Daily Mirror 24 Jan. 15 On the US side, ADSIDS (air delivered seismic intrusion detectors) dropped by plane, could tell a Communist jeep from a truck. 1973J. Leasor Host of Extras vii. 127 The Jeep driver started his engine... The Jeep shuddered.
▪ II. jeep, v. orig. U.S.|dʒiːp|
[f. the n.]
intr. To travel by jeep. So ˈjeeping vbl. n.
1942Time 28 Sept. 57 Yanks: drinking English tea; jeeping in the Middle East. 1945Picture Post 14 Apr. 7 Sometimes, it took us hours to jeep a few miles. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Feb. 115/4 Jeeping across the mountains on sheep tracks, ingeniously harrying the Germans. 1966M. R. D. Foot SOE in France xii. 406 An attempt to harass the impending German retreat by jeeping and ambushing. |