prep
IPA: prˈɛp
noun
- (countable) Preparation.
- (informal, countable) A prep school.
- (informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
- (Britain, uncountable) Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.
- (Australia) Nursery school; preschool.
- (Philippines) Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
- Abbreviation of preposition. [(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.]
- Alternative form of PrEP
- (medicine) Acronym of pre-exposure prophylaxis. [(medicine) A form of prevention, usually medication, that is taken before exposure to a pathogen, preventing development of disease after such exposure.]
verb
- (informal) To prepare.
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Examples of "prep" in Sentences
- It remains in prep 1 at present.
- It is also a college prep school.
- I'm looking to prep this for FAC.
- Preps the materialistic people 3.
- Ditto for the prep and impact section.
- In the prep school there are two choirs.
- See the at the time it was moved to Prep.
- PREP, are resolved rather unreliably by XT.
- The curriculum at Marquette is entirely college prep.
- The skin of the chest is prepped with a sterile solution.