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depping

depping is the present participle and gerund of dep.

Meaning of dep

Verb (1)

dep (third-person singular simple present deps, present participle depping, simple past and past participle depped)

  1. (informal) To deputize.
    • Regularly with Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band for almost a year in the late 1990s and later deputized in the band, including a tour of Denmark (2003), also depped in Chris Barber's Band for Swedish tour (2001).2004, John Chilton, Who's Who of British Jazz: 2nd Edition, page 212

Verb (2)

dep

  1. depart or departs
  2. deposed

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Questions about depping

What is depping the present participle and gerund of?
Depping is the present participle and gerund of dep.

Words near depping in the dictionary

  1. deppers
  2. Deppford wife
  3. Deppford wives
  4. Depphead
  5. Deppheads
  6. depping
  7. Depplorable
  8. Depplorables
  9. Depps
  10. depr
  11. depramine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depping (page history and authors); dep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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