crep

From Jamaican Creole crep.

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛp/

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• Rhymes: -ɛp

crep (plural creps)

1. (MLE, slang) trainer (sports shoe)
   • 2011, Chyna Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang:

     He skulked, like his creps was made out of lead. His skin, normally like polished bronze, was drained flat, as if he'd been bleached. When I smiled and said hello to him, Husayn looked at me from fifty miles away.

   • 2013, Mark Dawson, The Cleaner, page 7:

     The others hollered. “He's sicked up all over his creps!” Chips exclaimed.

   • 2017, “Uber Everywhere Freestyle 2”‎^[1]performed by Cadet (rapper):

     "Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone.

• ERCP, PCRE, Perc, RCEP, eRCP, perc, perc., prec.

• crepu

From Latin crepō. Compare Romanian crăpa, crăp.

crep (participle cripatã or cãrpate)

1. to crack, break

• cripari/cripare/cãrpari
• cripat/cãrpat
• cripatã/cãrpate
• cripiturã/cripãturã, cripirurã, cãrpãture

Borrowed from French crêpe, from Latin crispus. Doublet of cresp.

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crep f (plural creps)

1. crepe

• “crep”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “crep”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “crep” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛp/
• Rhymes: -ɛp

crep (plural crep dem, quantified crep)

1.  athletic shoe, trainer

• → English: crep

• crijȇp (Ijekavian)

From earlier *črěpъ, by liquid metathesis from Proto-Slavic *čerpъ, from Proto-Indo-European *kerpos.

• IPA^(key): /t͡srêːp/

crȇp m inan (Cyrillic spelling цре̑п) (Ekavian)

1. tile (for the roof)

Borrowed from French crêpe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾep/ [ˈkɾep]
• Rhymes: -ep
• Syllabification: crep

crep m (plural creps)

1. crepe

• “crep”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025