Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete strong preterit of leap.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Leaped.

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  • noun A butterfly or moth.

Etymologies

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Short for Lepidoptera

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Examples

  • "Twas like so: I was sittin 'in this vairy chair it was, asleep, when he crep' up behind an 'lep' on ma back.

    Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

  • Gain a little lep up on his competition? duh ray ray

    First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat 2009

  • Krzerszonese Milesia asundurst Sirdarthar Woolwichleagues, good tomkeys years somewhile in Crimealian wall samewhere in Ayerland, during me weeping stillstumms over the freshprosts of Eastchept and the dangling garters of Marrowbone and daring my wapping stiltstunts on Bostion Moss, old stile and new style and heave a lep onwards.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • And so (whishing her a suckastic ajew) Mrs. Jeames and I lep into a one oss weakle, and told the driver to go like mad back to Gloster.

    Burlesques 2006

  • And so (whishing her a suckastic ajew) Mrs. Jeames and I lep into a one oss weakle, and told the driver to go like mad back to Gloster.

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • Who blocksmitt her saft anvil or yelled lep to her pail?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Still, if you took a lep down on a wall there and shinned it up a drainpipe you might come close.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Still, if you took a lep down on a wall there and shinned it up a drainpipe you might come close.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • (EP-uh-lep-see) A disorder of the brain characterized by sudden, recurring attacks of abnormal brain function, often resulting in convulsions or seizures.

    epilepsy 2002

  • Gracile-phase cons work in the orbiting collection stations until they go lep.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

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