reps
SayREPS/ɹɛps/
- 1Plural of rep. Use it in casual talk when you mean more than one.
The coach told us to do ten reps of each exercise.
Two sales reps came to our office to show us the new printers.
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- 2Third-person singular present of rep. Use it with he, she or it in casual talk.
My uncle reps a company that makes kitchen tools.
My brother reps 100 pounds at the gym every morning.
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- 3Rep, a kind of cloth with raised lines on its surface.
The old sofa was covered in dark green reps.
She bought two yards of reps to make new curtains.
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reps is a form of rep
rep, noun: A cloth of silk, wool, or both, with small raised lines running across it. Full entry
- Forms
- repreps plural
- Spelling
- rep → reps: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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Origins
Meaning 3
From French reps, which came from the English word ribs.
Meanings 1–2
Inflected forms.