Usually means: Preparation, especially for school activities.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word prep:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. prep: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. PrEP, prep: Merriam-Webster
  3. prep, prep, prep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prep, prep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prep, prep: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prep: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prep, prep: Wordnik
  8. prep: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PREP, prep: Wiktionary
  10. prep: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prep, prep: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prep: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. prep, prep: Dictionary.com
  14. prep: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. prep: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PReP, PrEP, Prep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. prep: Rhymezone
  18. prep: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. prep: FreeDictionary.org
  20. prep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. prep, prep: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. PREP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PREP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PReP: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. PReP: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PrEP: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. prep: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PREP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prep: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Prep: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See prepped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Preparation.
noun:  (horse racing) A preparatory race or workout.
noun:  (informal, countable) A prep school.
noun:  (informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
noun:  (UK, chiefly private schools, uncountable) Homework; work set to do outside class time.
noun:  (Australia) Nursery school; preschool.
noun:  (Philippines) Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
verb:  (informal) To prepare.
noun:  Abbreviation of preposition. [(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.]
noun:  Alternative form of PrEP
noun:  (medicine) Acronym of pre-exposure prophylaxis. [(medicine) A form of prevention, usually medication, that is taken before exposure to a pathogen, preventing development of disease after such exposure.]

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