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creps

British  
/ krɛps /

plural noun

  1. an informal name for training shoes

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Etymology

Origin of creps

of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

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But every page, by dint of sheer linguistic exuberance, carries its own adventure: “The guy’s dirty trainers were too near my creps, making me milly.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs.

From Time Magazine Archive

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