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• herp
  herp

  noun

  Often the herp oral herpes or genital herpes.
• herp.
  herp.

  abbreviation

  herpetology.

herp

¹ American  

[herp] / hɛrp /

noun

Slang.

1. Often the herp oral herpes or genital herpes.

   Don’t go out with some skeevy rando you met at a bar who probably has the herp.

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herp. ² American  

Or herpet

abbreviation

1. herpetology.

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Etymology

Origin of herp

First recorded in 1975–80; by shortening

Example Sentences

“I have a two o’clock appointment,” Jule told the man at the herp desk.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

But at last she took it into herp.

From Wild Nature Won By Kindness by Brightwen, Elizabeth

Having ascertained all I wished to know about the maternal instincts of the earwig, I released the mother and herp.

From Wild Nature Won By Kindness by Brightwen, Elizabeth

She'll not be thinking much of ta herp for a music maker!

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

You are aye herp, herpin' at the big folk, or aboot the union.

From The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by Welsh, James C.