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repple depple U.S. Mil. slang.|ˈrɛp(ə)l ˌdɛp(ə)l|
Also reppo depot.
[f. replacement + depot modified by reduplication and rhyme.]
A replacement depot (see quot. 1945).
1945Amer. N. & Q. Dec. 136/2 Repple Depple, overseas replacement depot where soldiers are assembled before sailing back to the United States. 1945N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Dec. 20/3 One of the last phases of the European war's end—the overseas replacement depot or ‘repple depple’, where Yanks slated for the long voyage home are gathered together... Repple depples, in short, are dreary places. Ibid. He talked out of turn to the repple depple Powers-That-Be. 1947Amer. Speech XXII. 216 Repple Depple had a less popular form, Reppo Depot. A person who never approached the fighting front was a Reppo Depot Ranger. 1973S. Alsop Stay of Execution (1974) iii. 283, I suppose in the American army we would have been sent to a Replacement Depot, or Repple Depple. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 771 He was sent to Korea, not with a formed unit but to a replacement depot, a repple depple he explained to his parents. |