nep

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of New Economic Policy.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of National Energy Program.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of National Election Pool.

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of noise-equivalent power.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of nanosatellite engineering professional.
3. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of non-English proficient.
4. (uncountable, usually)Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.

   “Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.”

5. A knot in a fibre.

   “The neps appear as small dense areas or spots when compared to the surrounding fibers.”

6. (US, derogatory, slang)One who engages in nepotism, usually to the one who benefits from it.
7. (derogatory, ethnic, informal, offensive, slur)Nepali

   “Nepali job. Hundred and one per cent a Nep job. You've seen some of the crime they're responsible for. I tell you, these guys are fucking crazy. […] Ninety-nine per cent of this kind of crime, at least in Delhi, is done by Neps.”

verb

1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)Of cotton: to form knots.