veep

noun

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Current cast member James Austin Johnson was back as the show's resident Donald Trump, while Bowen Yang filled the shoes of the former president's current veep pick, J.D. Vance. Lauren Huff, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2024 Twitter Someone has made a generator that can put basically any album in the veep’s hands. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 July 2024 And Walz is miles behind Nelson Rockefeller, who in the 1970s was veep under President Gerald Ford and who is regarded as perhaps the richest vice president in U.S. history by virtue of his family fortune. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024 Of course, the vice president is aware, and not amused, that Kate’s estranged husband, the adorably Machiavellian Hal (Rufus Sewell), is maneuvering to have Kate made veep. Tom Gliatto, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for veep 

Word History

Etymology

from v.p. (abbreviation for vice president)

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of veep was in 1949

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“Veep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veep. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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