Crossword clues for prep
prep
- Planning, for short
- Plan ahead, for short
- Medical ritual, briefly
- Make ready for surgery
- Make a trial run
- Help the chef
- Get ready, slangily
- Get ready, as for an op
- Get ready, as for an exam
- Get ready for the operating room
- Do restaurant work
- Certain school
- Attend Exeter
- Attend Andover or Exeter
- Attend Andover, say
- Attend a boarding school
- Aid the chef, in a way
- Word in some private school names
- Word in private school names, informally
- Word after meal or before school
- Word after college or dealer
- Wash and chop the veggies, say
- Warm up, for short
- Warm up, briefly
- Study session, shortly
- Study for the SATs, say
- Slicing, dicing, etc
- Slice and dice, perhaps
- Shortened word in some high school names
- Scrub up before performing surgery
- SAT practice
- SAT course, e.g
- SAT ___ courses
- SAT ___ course
- SAT ___ book
- SAT ___ (Kaplan course)
- Sadat practice
- Restaurant work
- Restaurant kitchen work
- Ready, as for surgery
- Ready for the OR
- Ready for surgery, briefly
- Private-school enrollee
- Prestigious school, for short
- Precollege sch
- Pre-cooking job
- Practice for the SAT, say
- Practice for the LSAT, e.g
- Practice for the GMAT, e.g
- Plan ahead, informally
- Part of a cook's job
- OR verb
- Kitchen work before cooking
- Kitchen job
- Kind of school focused on college admissions
- Kind of h.s
- Job in a kitchen
- GRE practice
- Get things ready for the chef
- Get ready, in brief
- Get ready, as for a lifetime of success handed to you on a silver platter
- Get ready to proceed
- Get ready for OR work
- Get ready for an operation
- Get ready (for surgery)
- Emulate a sous chef
- Elite-type school
- Elite sort of school, for short
- Duty of some cooks
- Do a CPA's job
- Dicing food or turning on the oven, e.g
- Debone the chicken or dice the onions, say
- Dealer ___ (fee for an auto buyer)
- Dealer ___ (car-sticker line)
- Dealer __ (car-sticker line)
- Curtis Sittenfeld novel about a girl at the prestigious Ault Academy
- Cooking chore
- Chop, perhaps
- Chop veggies, say
- Careful planning, for short
- Attend Eton, e.g
- Attend Choate
- Attend Andover, perhaps
- Antiretroviral drug, for short
- Aid the chef
- 2005 Sittenfeld novel
- -- school
- ___ school (private academy for the college-bound)
- ___ school (pre-college institution)
- ___ school (place like Phillips Exeter Academy)
- ___ school (place like Choate or Groton)
- ___ school (institution that gets students ready for college)
- ___ school (Exeter, e.g.)
- ___ cook (chef's assistant)
- Get ready, for short
- Warm-up
- Make ready, informally
- Get ready, informally
- Attend Andover, e.g.
- Attend Choate, e.g.
- Ready for surgery, for short
- Trial run, in horse-racing lingo
- Get-ready work
- Kind of school, for short
- Ready for the operating room, briefly
- Ready for use (Abbr.)
- Get ready for an exam, for short
- Before-test work, informally
- Make ready, briefly
- Get set, briefly
- Kind of course
- Princeton Review or Kaplan study
- Feed facts to, maybe
- Make ready, for short
- Teacher's before-class work
- ___ school (private precollege institution)
- Test ___
- Lay the groundwork
- Attend Choate, say
- SAT course, e.g.
- Peeling potatoes or shucking corn, for short
- Some kitchen work, informally
- Princeton Review coursework
- Kind of h.s.
- Certain school, for short
- Attend Exeter, e.g.
- Type of school, for short
- Get ready for the O.R.
- Attend Andover, e.g
- Trial run for a horse
- A high school, for short
- Swot's milder kin
- Type of sch.
- Kind of sch.
- ____ school (precollege institution)
- Scrub down, as for surgery
- Trial run, in horse racing
- Study for a quiz
- Pre-coll. school
- Attend Abbot
- Attend Harrow
- Precollege sch.
- School, for short
- Sch. like Eton College
- Attend Choate or Andover
- Exeter or Andover, for short
- Attend Exeter, e.g
- School like Groton
- Attend Choate, e.g
- Study for an exam
- Sch. for a would-be Ivy Leaguer
- Quiet salesman’s homework
- School homework
- Homework pages - school subject to be absorbed
- Turning each page in work before you start properly
- __ school
- Get ready, briefly
- Warm up, perhaps
- Get ready for surgery, for short
- ER procedure
- Get ready, casually
- Get ready, as for surgery
- Get ready (for)
- Get ready for the OR
- Ready oneself
- Get ready quickly?
- Scrub up, say
- Private school, briefly
- Get ready to operate on
- Word in some school names
- Study (for)
- Scrub up, e.g
- Ready, for short
- Get ready, as for an operation
- Get ready to perform surgery, for short
- Get ready to operate?
- Get ready to operate
- Get ready for, for short
- Elite school
- Attend Eton, say
- Type of school, briefly
- Study, informally
- Some restaurant work
- Some restaurant kitchen work
- Ready, briefly
- Ready for an operation
- Pre-op activity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1862, short for preparation. Prep school attested from 1895, short for preparatory school. First record of prep in the sense "student or graduate of a preparatory school" is from 1899 (also see preppie).
slang shortening of prepare, 1908. Related: Prepped; prepping.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) preparation. 2 (abbreviation of preposition English) 3 (context informal countable English) preparatory school 4 (context informal countable English) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy. (from late 19th c.) 5 (context British uncountable English) homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools. vb. (context informal English) To prepare.
WordNet
n. preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) [syn: homework, preparation]
Wikipedia
Prep may refer to:
- A nickname for anything associated with a university-preparatory school, such as:
- A person who attends such a " college prep school" in the United States
- A person whose manner or clothing fits the American " preppy" stereotype
- PrEP, or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, the use of prescription drugs to prevent HIV transmission before exposure
- Prep, a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Prep, short form for a plasmid preparation (including minipreps and bulk preps) or the DNA prepared by such a method
- Prep, short form for preparation of or for something
- PReP, the PowerPC Reference Platform
- P-rep, a statistical value of the probability of replicating an observed effect
- Preparative, a NATO signal flag
- Presequence Protease, a mitochondrial and chloroplastic protein
Usage examples of "prep".
As Zella and I prepped the patient, they went through the Detainment Area, and came back with a small garment-repair kit, a thermal braising tool, and a pile of personal hygiene sponges.
I started one of the nurses on the blood synthesizer, and another four prepping ortho and wound instrument trays.
Perhaps our intelligence relied on the same methods to decide when and where to do extensive air or arty prep along the road.
Sally Prine in prep, probably for LSM Seven, and a man, also out in another room, that none of us knew but who was certainly one of us.
But she shattered my romantic dreams by announcing that she now had a very serious boyfriend, a New Reformationist named Ed Kelso, back at Marsport prep, so that whatever we did was just for old times and not serious.
And meanwhile, Nom Anor made a mental note to have his coralcraft fed, groomed, and prepped for sudden takeoff.
Prep Three was just down the corridor, and she entered to find Billingsgate poring over the high-detail plate there.
He let the light slide over the blade, and pressed it against his wrists, his throat, along the thin scars from his cryonic prep already slashed there.
I went on to explain the findings to Reever as we prepped him for a thorough examination.
Bankers Row, where most of the goods they had bilked out of the natives were being prepped for final shipment.
As Zella and I prepped the patient, they went through the Detainment Area, and came back with a small garment-repair kit, a thermal braising tool, and a pile of personal hygiene sponges.
The team had the Tingalean rolled over and her back prepped and sterilized.
I covered Medical so Squilyp could attend, and got back to work on our hypercellular experiment, prepping the cloned Jorenian liver for testing.
Medical, Squilyp and the nursing staff were prepping to remove Hawk from sleep suspension.
She might have, had she not been spending so much of her time with Corrigan and the others, prepping the sail for deployment.