Crossword clues for pep
pep
- Rally or talk preceder
- Palindromic punch
- Lots of energy
- Energize, with 'up'
- Cheerleading requisite
- Cheerleader's requirement
- Cheerleader's energy
- ___ talk (inspirational speech)
- ___ talk (coach's speech)
- ___ talk (coach's encouragement)
- ___ Pills
- ___ Boys (automotive repair chain whose mascots are Manny, Moe, and Jack)
- __ talk: team motivator
- Zip or drive
- Zip in your step
- Zip back and forth?
- Zest, zing, and zip
- Word with talk or rally
- Willie of ring fame
- What an energy drink will give you
- What an energy drink might give you
- Vim and vigour
- Type of talk
- Subject of some rallies
- Sort of rally
- School squad goal?
- Rally power?
- Physical sparkle
- Palindromic vigor
- Old Kellogg's cereal brand
- Motivational speech, ... talk
- Make lively, with "up"
- Liveliness and vigor
- It may be in your step
- Focus of some rallies
- Featherweight great Willie
- Energy, vitality
- Energy at rallies
- Cheerleading asset
- Cheerleaders' spirit
- Cheerleaders' hallmark
- Cheerleader's spirited quality
- Cheerleader's spirit
- Cheerleader's quality
- Bit of bounce
- Become spirited, with "up"
- Animation or spirit
- Animate, with "up"
- Abundance in the cheerleading squad
- (1) Kind of rally
- ___ talk (speech to a team at halftime)
- ___ talk (speech from a coach)
- ___ talk (pregame speech)
- ___ talk (inspiring speech)
- ___ talk (encouraging speech to a team)
- ___ talk (coach's speech to a team)
- ___ talk (coach's motivational speech)
- ___ talk (coach's inspirational speech)
- ___ squad (morale booster)
- ___ squad (group that promotes school spirit)
- ___ rally (school spirit assembly)
- ___ rally (high school event)
- ___ rally (gathering before a game)
- ___ rally (event with cheerleaders)
- ___ rally (event to raise school spirit)
- ___ rally (event that promotes school spirit)
- ___ rally (event before a high school sporting event)
- ___ pill (amphetamine)
- ___ Boys (car repair chain)
- ___ Boys (car repair chain with the mascots Manny, Moe, and Jack)
- ___ Boys (automotive service chain)
- ___ Boys (auto parts chain)
- __ Boys: auto parts chain
- Morale booster kept pal involved
- Inspiring address
- Stimulant tablet
- Life
- Oomph
- Vim and vigor
- Zing
- Kind of rally or talk
- Energy, informally
- Enthusiasm
- Vigor
- Spirit or energy
- Sparkle
- Get-up-and-go
- Dash
- Zip or vigor
- Vinegar, so to speak
- Gusto
- Product with a circular red, white and blue logo
- Vitality
- Kind of talk or rally
- Animation or spiritedness
- Fire
- Bounce
- Liven (up)
- Jazz (up)
- ___ rally (school event)
- Verve
- Liveliness and energy
- Human dynamo's asset
- A must for cheerleaders
- Ginger
- Cheerleader's asset
- Former featherweight champ
- Good quality for a cheerleader
- Willie of boxing fame
- Vim, vigor or verve
- Punch
- What a cheerleader has
- Word with rally or pill
- Pizazz
- Featherweight champ: 1942-48
- Willie ___, 1942–48 featherweight champ
- Liveliness the same after upset
- Brisk energy
- Up-and-down energy?
- High spirits, vitality
- Cheerleader's need
- Kind of talk
- Boundless energy
- Lively spirits
- Lively energy, informally
- Kind of pill or rally
- Get up and go
- Type of squad
- Type of high-school rally
- High energy
- ___ squad (team spirit group)
- __ rally
- Type of talk or rally
- Palindromic energy
- High school assembly goal
- Cheerleader's trait
- ____ rally
- ___ rally (event held in a high school gym)
- Word with "pill" or "rally"
- Word before talk or rally
- Type of rally or pill
- Rally feature
- Kind of squad or rally
- Invigorate, with "up"
- __ band: school rally performers
- Word with rally or talk
- What Red Bull might give you
- Type of rally
- Talk word
- Talk type
- Spring in one's step
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"vigor, energy," 1912, shortened form of pepper (n.), which was used in the figurative sense of "spirit, energy" from at least 1847. Pep rally is attested from 1945; pep talk from 1926. To pep (something) up is from 1925.
Wiktionary
n. energy, high spirits. vb. To inject with energy and enthusiasm.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pep is energy or high spirits; it may refer to:
- Pep band, an ensemble of instrumentalists
- Pep, a slang term for amphetamine
- Pep, the dog in Putt-Putt (series) (children's adventure games)
- "Pep", the defunct in-house journal for the Newspaper Enterprise Association
- Neilson's 'Pep'-brand mint-chocolate pattie
- Pep, New Mexico
- Pep, Texas
- Pep Cereal, a whole-wheat cereal once produced by the Kellogg Company
- Pep Comics, a comic published by MLJ Comics (later Archie Comics)
- Pep (store), a large retail chain based in South Africa
- Pep talk, motivational lecture
- Pep Guardiola, a coach for many top football clubs
Pep is a multinational retail company based in Cape Town, South Africa. Founded in 1965, Pep operated in 11 countries in Southern Africa with the opening of an outlet in Lobito, Angola in November 2008. As of November 2009, the company reported over 1400 stores in operation, with total employment equaling 14,000 employees. It also owns and runs the largest clothing factory in southern Africa, where it manufactures much of its clothing.
Pep's target market is the mass lower to middle income end of the market. As such it seeks to sell low cost clothes and is the largest single-brand retailer in South Africa. Pep is a subsidiary of Pepkor.
Usage examples of "pep".
Coach Van Dermit, who, obviously uncomfortable with the dramatics of the pep rally, quickly presented all the members of the team.
When she danced, at dances, it was with other cheerleaders and twirlers and Pep Squad Terrierettes, because no male had the grit or spit to ask her.
Preening and pruning himself effulgendy and strutting vaingloriously about the platform as he picked up momentum, he gave the men the colors of the day again and shifted nimbly into a rousing pep talk on the importance of the bridge at Avignon to the war effort and the obligation of each man on the mission to place love of country above love of life.
Uh, not to be a buttinsky, but could we get back to the pep talky thing?
I was working on a Metrification pep talk I had to give at the National Bureau of Weights and Standards when the door opened and Feels walked in.
For another, she associated it with the large meetings in which the paralegal administrator would gather her flock and give them all a rah-rah pep talk, which amounted to a plea not to quit just because the raises this year were going to be only 5 percent.
Kimi, filled her water bowl, and, as she drank, delivered a rousing preshow pep talk.
Or mutant pep tides present only under pathological behavioral conditions, such as the tripeptide found in .
Neat little picture: man lighting cigarette, throws match absentmindedly in tub of pep instead of waste basket, panics, spills the stuff, steps wildly back from flames, trips over stove and knocks himself out.
After bouncing around the Midwest he had settled in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he worked doing brake jobs for Pep Boys.
Migeon, picked it up, while Carnegie concluded his pep talk to the assembled officers.
Three or four spot checks were taken at every meeting, mainly to deter trainers of doubtful reputation from pepping up or slowing down their horses with drugs.
The deal with Emily was that they would call when Amanda got her period and drop by within a day or two for the medication, instructions on when to take it, and a pep talk.
The cheerleaders bounced about like irregular ping-pong balls, shaking their pompoms among other things and arousing the pep squad to frenzied squeals.
Boston University's tennis team, needless to say, had neither cheerleaders nor baton-twirling Pep Squads, which were reserved for major and large-crowd sports.