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lepak

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Singapore/ˌleɪˈpɑk/

lepak verb: to loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.

Verb

lepak (inflections generally avoided, third-person singular simple present lepaks, present participle lepaking, simple past and past participle lepaked)

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, intransitive) To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.
    • I think we should rally behind PM [the Prime Minister] for the sake of national unity. Without national unity, there will be more single mothers, abandoned babies, people lepaking (loitering) …1997, Aliran Monthly, volumes 17–18, Pinang, Malaysia: Aliran Kesedaran Negara, →OCLC, page 19, column 3
    • We do things together and we lepak together quite a bit (hey, this is the solution to the lepak problem: the family that lepaks together stays together).1997, Marina Mahathir, In Liberal Doses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Archipelago Press, →ISBN, page 118

Proper noun capitalized: Lepak

Lepak (plural Lepaks)

  1. A surname.

Examples of lepak in a sentence

  • The study's operational definition was that "a teenager lepaks if he gathers and remains in a public place without any special purpose other than chattering or laughing."1998, Thomas A. Williamson, Leaving Town: Kuala Kangsar’s Colonial Past and the Postponed Nation in Malaysia (unpublished Ph.D....
  • "What do you think will happen?" a reporter asked a beautiful girl lepaking and smoking outside the Starbucks in Bukit Bintang Plaza.2005, T. R. R. Raman, The Wedgwood Ladies Football Club and Other Stories, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Silverfishbooks, →ISBN, page 189:
  • With these cafes, KLites often lepaked (hung out) way into the wee hours and now it has become a part of our pop culture.2011, Tony Wilson, “Beyond Attitudes: To the Audience Itself!: Understanding Consumers: Interpretive Inductivism”, in Global Advertising...

Forms of lepak

Verb
third-person singular presentlepaks
present participlelepaking
past participlelepaked
pastlepaked
Proper noun
pluralLepaks

Origin of lepak

Borrowed from Malay lepak.

Questions about lepak

What does lepak mean?
Lepak means to loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.
How do you use lepak in a sentence?
The study's operational definition was that "a teenager lepaks if he gathers and remains in a public place without any special purpose other than chattering or laughing."
What part of speech is lepak?
Lepak can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lepak?
Lepak is pronounced /ˌleɪˈpɑk/ (Singapore).
What is the past tense of lepak?
The past tense of lepak is lepaked.

Words near lepak in the dictionary

  1. lepadoid
  2. lepadoids
  3. Lepaga
  4. LePage
  5. Lepages
  6. lepak
  7. lepaked
  8. lepaking
  9. lepakking
  10. lepaks
  11. lepal

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