prep

IPA: prˈɛp

(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.]

Examples of "prep" in Sentences

SAT prep is like sex education; it doesn't make you any better at it.
So I guessed that he was remembering that his sons had read it in prep school.
I just wonder if James Franco isn't doing this soap acting job in prep for another acting job.
No amount of pagent prep is going to get her ready to step into a role she will tire of and QUIT half way thru.
He said the one that did impress me when I was in prep school was "Catcher in the Rye," which was not published ...