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▪ I. prep, n. and a. slang (orig. School and College).|prɛp|
1. n. Short for preparation.
a. In sense 1 c; esp. lessons and exercises to be done by a pupil after school hours, either at school or as homework (see homework 2). Also attrib.
1862[see preparation 1 c]. 1899E. Phillpotts Hum. Boy 119 Murdoch he let crib off him in ‘prep’ three times. 1900Dialect Notes II. 51 (College Words and Phrases) Prep... Preparation. 1901‘Ian Maclaren’ Yng. Barbarians xv, The recreations which enliven ‘prep’. 1911Beerbohm Zuleika D. xxii. 313 With his elbows on the kitchen table..sat Clarence, intent on belated ‘prep’. 1939R. C. Woodthorpe Rope for Convict v. 51 I've just remembered I haven't done the prep. he sent me. 1961E. S. Turner Phoney War vii. 28 At prep time, they were not allowed to use ink, for fear of damaging the art treasures on the walls. 1972Where Sept. 237/3 The standard half-hour homework, or ‘prep’ as it is called in some schools, is purely notional. 1976Daily Times (Lagos) 4 Sept. 19/2 (Advt.), Boarding with daily coaching, strict attention, and Prep Supervision for: Forms One to Five male and female in Lagos. 1977J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe i. 8 Two of her boys..must be got home in time to be calmed down and persuaded to do their prep. 1979Homes & Gardens June 97/2 There is a general shuffling, an air of impatience, boredom even, of the sort you find at prep. time in public schools.
b. In various other senses. Also attrib.
1925D. H. Lawrence Let. ? 17 Dec. (1962) II. 870 Tell Achsah, lest she make any preps for me. 1934Amer. Speech IX. 237/2 The curtailed word or back-shortening prep... In this sentence, The team had an intensive prep yesterday afternoon, it has the same connotation as drill or practice. 1976M. Millar Ask for me Tomorrow (1977) xvi. 127 A little too perfectly groomed, as if he'd just been given the full treatment in..a mortician's prep room. 1976Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 204 He is given a prep ‘surgical preparation’. 1977Hot Car Oct. 69/1 (caption) Persevere with this as it is an important prep stage for the paint.
c. Horse-racing. A race that is a preparation for a more important event. U.S.
1944Sun (Baltimore) 4 Mar. 9/4 A better-than-fair horse, which he..guided to second place..in the $7,500-McClennan, the widener prep won by Sun Again. 1975New Yorker 15 Sept. 110/2 It isn't often that a hundred-thousand-dollar race is a prep for a two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar one. 1977Ibid. 3 Oct. 112/1 Quiet Little Table..won the prep, running head-and-head down the stretch with Wise Philip and Jatski.
2. Short for preparatory a. orig. U.S.
a. adj. In sense 2 a.
1895J. L. Williams Princeton Stories 128 After awhile he found himself walking with the freshman way out toward the Prep. school. 1903Chicago Record-Herald 7 June iii. 1/1 A crowd of nearly 4,000 university, ‘prep’ school and grammar school rooters cheered from the bleachers. 1905McClure's Mag. June 123/2 The commercial class of prep school athletes admire their prototypes in the colleges. 1906M. Nicholson Ho. w. 1000 Candles i. 3, I had thrashed him soundly at the prep school. 1930[see fact n. 4 f]. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 298 They are..as childish as the hidden rivers and prep school puns that adorn Joyce's Anna Livia Plurabelle. 1943Scrutiny XI. 287 His [sc. Wodehouse's] humour is a cross of Prep-school and Punch. 1959T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman ii. 63 You were expelled from your prep school for stealing. 1971New Yorker 15 May 51/2 Dulwich College—what the English call a public school and we call a prep school. 1974Listener 14 Mar. 339/3 The prep-school language and the note of petulance nicely convey the immaturity..of this band of heroes. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 Apr. 10/4 It was not the Vietnam War that pinched the adolescent rush to prep schools.
b. n. Short for preparatory school. Also attrib.
1895J. L. Williams Princeton Stories 244 Charlie Symington was a well-built prep. boy who had been known to strike out three men with the bases full. 1924H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match v. 158 To know whose call it is..was driven into me at the prep. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 21 My attendance at Dulwich College Preparatory School (the Prep.) coincided with the South African war. 1934Amer. Speech IX. 237/2 In the following sentence the term refers to high schools, Nebraska Preps Have Major Encounters this Week. 1969Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 2d/1 The Eagles thought, to win the state B prep football title, they'd have to throw more than they did. 1976Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. h–2/1 Going back to last Saturday's game, it was great to see just how far Russ Francis has come since his prep days at Kailua High.
c. n. A student at a preparatory school, or who is preparing for college (Cent. Dict. 1890). U.S.
1899A. H. Quinn Pennsylvania Stories 117 He was going to tell all those people, from the Governor down to the prep in the gallery, who came from his own old school, just what the College had done for him. 1948Chicago Daily News 6 Dec. 23/4 (caption), 2 preps die in Oregon bush crash. 1978Maledicta 1977 I. 223 A stout prep who wore saucer-shaped glasses.
▪ II. prep, v.1 U.S. slang.|prɛp|
[f. prec., sense 2.]
intr. To attend a preparatory school, be a preparatory school student.
1915Dialect Notes IV. 236 Prep, preparatory: used as a verb ‘to attend a preparatory school’. 1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise ii. 43 Where'd you prep? 1936L. C. Douglas White Banners xiv. 305 Thomas and this Colonel Livingstone had prepped together at this academy. 1967Boston Sunday Herald Mag. 16 Apr. 8/2 What school do you go to?.. Where did you prep? 1977New Yorker 23 May 91/1 A native of Peoria, Illinois, who prepped at Lawrenceville, Davis graduated from Princeton with highest honors in history.
▪ III. prep, v.2 slang (orig. U.S.).|prɛp|
[f. prep n. 1, or shortening of prepare v.]
a. trans. To prepare (someone or something); to train (an animal) for racing; to prime (a witness); spec., in hospital terminology, to prepare (a patient) for an operation. Also absol.
1927Amer. Speech II. 313/1 Ask whether the ‘ten-thirty appendectomy has been prepped yet?’ For some reason a patient's abdomen is not shaved, it is ‘prepped’, that is, prepared for the surgeon. 1936Esquire Sept. 160/3 Little Lord Fauntleroy and Dodsworth [sc. two films] have been ‘prepping prod.’ (preparing production) for some time. 1937‘J. Bell’ Murder in Hospital vii. 133 Macdonald started to prep him. Ibid., She gave him his atropine for the operation when she had finished prep'ing the leg. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 12 Oct. 16/5 (heading) Attention [sc. a horse] being prepped for New Orleans 'Cap. 1961‘K. Norway’ Waterfront Hosp. i. 19, I told Nurse David, ‘Five minutes—we'll have to prep on the table.’ 1965Eng. Stud. XLVI. 461 Prepster ‘one who is being prepped; trainee’. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 14 May ii. 3/1 Anyone planning to enter greyhound racing should know it costs close to $600 to prep each dog for the races. 1968J. D. MacDonald Pale Grey for Guilt (1969) xii. 145 Somebody prepped her pretty good, Sheriff. I might even have thought she saw somebody she sincerely mistook for me. 1969I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam v. 110 The gun-ships must have done a thorough job of ‘prepping’ the L.Z. because, apart from sporadic sniper fire,..we met no opposition there. 1972M. Goldberg Karamanov Equations xxiii. 226 Have the nurse prep him... Neck, chest, and groin. 1975Globe & Mail (Toronto) 18 Sept. 5/1 Looking as Tory as the advance men who precede the Premier to prep the crowd, he strolled through the market.
b. intr. for refl. To prepare oneself (for an event); to practise, to train (esp. in sport). U.S.
1934Amer. Speech IX. 237/2 Verbal use of the word appears in Beavers Arrive in Omaha to Prep for Husker Fray. 1937Sun (Baltimore) 22 Apr. 17/1 (heading) Track preps for Ky. Derby. 1941Ibid. 3 July 16/1 The latter..was prepping for the New Castle Handicap to be run on Saturday. 1949N.Y. Times 4 Sept. v. 2/6 A pitcher, who had prepped earnestly for many years in the minors..was cut from the roster. 1972Newsweek 10 Jan. 24/3 Mrs. Nixon has been prepping for the trip for weeks. 1977Time 28 Nov. 66/1 Akers had prepped as a Royal assistant before moving into the head coaching job at Wyoming in 1975. |