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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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Then my husband tried buying black-eyed peas in cans, which cut the prep to nearly nothing.
—Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Officials also confiscated syringes, alcohol preps and other materials.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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Noun
The rehearsal dinner itself is also in jeopardy when the power on the riverboat goes out, ruining Preacher’s refrigerated prep work.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Then my husband tried buying black-eyed peas in cans, which cut the prep to nearly nothing.
—Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
The meticulous application process takes about two hours, and entails cutting the client’s remaining hair to prep the bald areas for the hair strips.
—Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Officials also confiscated syringes, alcohol preps and other materials.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Prep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prep. Accessed 26 Dec. 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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