Noun: pep pep
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Liveliness and energy
"this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep";
- peppiness [informal], ginger
- Make more interesting or lively
"pep up your paper";
- jazz up [informal], juice up [N. Amer, informal], pep up, ginger up [informal]
- Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
"The crowd pepped the demonstrating strikers";
- cheer, root on [N. Amer, informal], inspire, urge, barrack [Austral, NZ], urge on, exhort
Derived forms: pepping, peps, pepped
Type of: animate, encourage, enliven, invigorate, life, liveliness, liven, liven up, spirit, sprightliness
Encyclopedia: Pep, TX