Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express surprise or annoyance.
Wiktionary
- interj. used to express surprise
Etymologies
- Alteration of Jesus. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Jesus1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Prone to exclaiming "jeepers" in interviews, the kindly Mr. Fernandez would try to explain the enduring popularity of "Speed Racer" by pointing to children's fascination with cars and the show's emphasis on Speed's family relationships.”
The Washington Post: Actor and writer Peter Fernandez, 83, dies; brought 'Speed Racer' to U.S.
“His sweater vests, his propensity to say "jeepers," and his insistence on going to sleep at 9: 00 sharp -- it all makes him seem like a very old man.”
“We couldn't say God so we said 'gad;' we couldn't say Jesus Christ so we said 'jeepers',”
“He is a '60s renegade not afraid to use a corny word like "jeepers," and he displayed a ripe sense of humor about some of his younger antics - he once attended a press tour barefoot (although the suit was bespoke and the tie Hermes).”
“It was unlistenable, as I remember it, but it sure scared the jeepers out of me as a youngster.”
“I was feeling like a complete failure because, jeepers, java moss is supposed to be fairly indestructiable.”
“Documents relating to my limited time with SF duty have been lost over the years much to my chagrin and as the result I have not wore a beret in jeepers over 5 years now and will never be wearing it again.”
“September 2nd, 2009 10: 18 am ET jeepers, its the republican GOD thing, again. leave that crap at home and just do what you are getting paid quite well for. is it too much to ask? what a schmuck!”
“News of Google's local bedbug outbreak first spread on Thursday when a person who claims to work for the company sent a Twitter message saying, "jeepers i am not immune from the bedbug epidemic. bedbugs have been found at work.”
The Wall Street Journal: Google Offices Report Bedbugs Infestation
“I hope Obama gets what he wants out of these people, but, jeepers, what a disappointing set of choices they are.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jeepers’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Yoinks, Zoinks, & Zounds!
A collection of interjections and verbal ejaculations.
yoinks, zoinks, zounds, crikey, lawsy, oomph, unf, shazbot, lordy, mox nix, cosmic, no dice and 30 more...
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Interesting Expletives
Non-4-letter word expletives, invectives, and exclamations.
blows goats, oh my head, binger, conger, copper penny, sucks to your ass..., criminey, bongies, nob wipe, fiddlesticks, hells bells, jump'n jesus and 5 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2455 more... -
Great Race Horse Names10
poetry in motion - words at work.
illuminator, bonk, testify to love, passion for gumbo, grimacing, above a whisper, jazz ensemble, dinner in the diner, marginal reality, scalding passion, you wont like it, umber and 216 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Random and Lovely Words.
:)
scrupulous, evasive, dandy, lovely, complacent, pickle, tomato, jingle, chipper, telepathy, snicker, wry and 74 more...
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neat!
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neat, nifty, keen, swell, far out, groovy, wicked, peachy, awesome, rad, boss, cool and 50 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for jeepers.

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