prepped; prepping
: prepare
especially
: to prepare for an operation or examination
nurses prepped the patient
pre-exposure prophylaxis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that PrEP, when used consistently, can reduce the risk of H.I.V. infection by up to 92 percent.—
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Examples of prep in a Sentence
Noun
Painting a room involves a lot of prep.
Verb
She spent all night prepping for the test.
The runners are prepping themselves for the race.
It took me about 20 minutes to prep the vegetables.
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Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
But, while several companies including White Castle, Sweetgreen and Chipotle are currently testing out ways to automate food prep, circuits and software haven't yet taken over.
—Queenie Wong Los Angeles Times (tns), arkansasonline.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
Later, Daisy asks Diana to prep some lime juice, and the junior stew asks what it’s used for.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noun
There was a whole other layer of prep that went into preparing what people could have to prepare.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
But, while several companies including White Castle, Sweetgreen and Chipotle are currently testing out ways to automate food prep, circuits and software haven't yet taken over.
—Queenie Wong Los Angeles Times (tns), arkansasonline.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
Road restrictions are popping up as crews prep for Vice President Kamala Harris' concert outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Monday.
—Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
Later, Daisy asks Diana to prep some lime juice, and the junior stew asks what it’s used for.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Prep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prep. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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prep
1 of 3 noun
: the act or an instance of preparing a patient for a surgical operation
the nurse had three preps to do
prep
2 of 3 transitive verb
prepped; prepping
: to prepare for a surgical operation or examination
prep the patient for an appendectomy
PrEP
3 of 3 abbreviation
pre-exposure prophylaxis
The introduction of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has shown significant promise in reducing the rate of HIV incidence. … Although nearly 1.2 million people could benefit from PrEP, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) estimates that ~130,000–135,000 individuals were actively on PrEP in late 2019—meaning <15% of individuals in need of PrEP had a current prescription.—Benedikt Pleuhs et al., AIDS Patient Care and STDs
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