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jeep

/d͡ʒiːp/

jeep adjective: pertaining to utility or general purpose. Also the clipping of jeepney.

jeep: pertaining to utility or general purpose
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Adjective

jeep (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to utility or general purpose.

Noun (1)

jeep (plural jeeps)

  1. A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain.
  2. A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland.
  3. (genericized trademark) A sport utility vehicle or similar four-wheel-drive vehicle.

Verb

jeep (third-person singular simple present jeeps, present participle jeeping, simple past and past participle jeeped)

  1. (ambitransitive) To travel by jeep.
    • From there we jeeped over extraordinarily difficult roads to Marwari City, the site of Southern Philippine University, where I had been invited to address a convocation on the subject of "College Life in the United States."1997, John H. Esterline, Mae H. Esterline, Innocents Abroad: How We Won the Cold War, page 272

Noun (2)

jeep (plural jeeps)

  1. (corrosion) A device for detecting discontinuity in a protective coating, also called a "holiday detector"
  2. (Australia, regional) A covered shopping cart, also called a "shopping stroller".

Noun (3)

jeep (plural jeeps)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, 4chan /lgbt/ slang) A trans woman who is sexually attracted to women and transitioned due to autogynephilia.
    • Coordinate term: husstuss
    • Everyone who comes here and who knows who Blanchard even is would be considered an agp fetishist coomer by Blanchard. Cope harder you malebrained jeep.2024 September 30, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/

Proper noun capitalized: JEEP

JEEP

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan.

Noun (4) capitalized: Jeep

Jeep (plural Jeeps)

  1. A vehicle (of a particular brand) suitable for rough terrain.

Also used as

jeep is also the clipping of jeepney.

jeep meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

jeep in Hindi

vehicle
जीप jīp

jeep in Tamil

ஜீப், ஜீப்பு

jeep in Marathi

vehicle
जीप jīp

jeep in Urdu

جیپ
More languagesFewer languages
jeep in Bengali
জিপ, জীপ
jeep in Telugu
జీపు, జీప్, జీపుకు
jeep in Malayalam
ജീപ്പ്, ജീപ്
jeep in Kannada
ಜೀಪ್, ಜೀಪು
jeep in Punjabi
ਜੀਪ
jeep in Gujarati
જીપ
jeep in Odia
ଜୀପ୍
jeep in Nepali
जीप, जिप
jeep in Tagalog
dyip
jeep in Arabic
جِيب jīb
jeep in Malay
jip
jeep in Persian
جیپ jip

Examples of jeep in a sentence

  • Because the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment.
  • Billy Toad has shown extreme indecision in all aspects when it comes to his jeep. Whether it's how to modify it, or if he will sell it.
  • If the jeep sank into mire, how could we pull it out?

All 15 example sentences with jeep

Forms of jeep

Noun
pluraljeeps
pluralJeeps
Verb
third-person singular presentjeeps
present participlejeeping
past participlejeeped
pastjeeped

Plural of jeep: jeeps

Origin of jeep

Derived from GP, initialism of general-purpose. Noun from General Purpose Vehicle (military light utility truck).

Disputed. Possibly from Eugene the Jeep, a character in Popeye cartoons.

An ironic pronunciation of AGP, the initialism of autogynephilia in Blanchard's transsexual typology.

Words formed from jeep

Phrases with jeep

Words that rhyme with jeep

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Questions about jeep

What does jeep mean?
Jeep means pertaining to utility or general purpose.
What is jeep in Hindi?
Jeep in Hindi is जीप (jīp). See Jeep meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jeep?
Jeep can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jeep?
Jeep is pronounced /d͡ʒiːp/.

Words near jeep in the dictionary

  1. jeels
  2. jeem
  3. jeemany
  4. jeems
  5. Jeena
  6. jeep
  7. jeep carrier
  8. jeep carriers
  9. Jeep duck
  10. Jeep ducking
  11. jeep girl

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jeep (page history and authors); JEEP (page history and authors); Jeep (page history and authors); jeep (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jeep (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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