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n. (pep talk English)
Usage examples of "pep talks".
During my first 2 years in Vietnam, when the only troops I gave pep talks to were those who served under me, I was called “.
They were checking gear, giving each other pep talks, and a few were praying.
The South Vietnamese really only needed pep talks and fine tuning, but the redeemable commies -- Northerners that we thought might be able to influence the diehard Reds back home -- they needed out-and-out conversion and hypnagogic reinforcement.
She understood he felt hopelessly ill-equipped and unready, emotionally as well as physically, yet she had already given him all the appropriate pep talks.
His morale, as a team member, must be encouraged by reasoned explanation and pep talks.
As he turned he opened his mouth and Jericho nerved himself for one of Logie's excruciating housemaster's pep talks -something about innocent lives depending on them, and the need for them to do their best, and the race being not to the swift nor the battle to the strong (he had actually said this once) - but instead his mouth just widened into a yawn.
Pilgrim gave the worst pep talks Jerry had ever heard, but he felt that he could use another one about now.
Now the war had been going for a month, and Achilles was giving them daily pep talks about how victory was imminent even as they wrestled privately with the growing problems of extricating the army.
She imagined this man thirty years ago giving pep talks at space shuttle component factories.
They'd expected self-appointed spokesmen to make speeches or pep talks, not this primal chant.
It was the third in a series of company pep talks and Max had absolutely no idea what the previous two had been about either.
He knew he ought to be doing his bit as a Prince by rallying the army with pep talks and rousing speeches, but somehow he just couldn't bring himself to do it.