Definition of jeepers in English:
jeepers
(also jeepers creepers)
exclamation ˈdʒiːpəzˈdʒipərz
North American informal Used to express surprise or alarm.
Jeepers! Do you think she saw?
Example sentencesExamples
- It's with no small amount of self-consciousness that you write or read - or, jeepers, review - a book on snobbery.
- She launches into a heart-melting ballad that has you thinking: jeepers, if this beautiful and talented lass can't find love, what chance do the rest of us have?
- I can tell because of the way she shrieks, ‘oh, my, jeepers, I wonder who this is from.’
- But I look again, because jeepers, he sure looks a lot like CK.
- People were saying jeepers, creepers when Harry Redknapp paid £5m for him.
Origin
1920s: alteration of Jesus.
Definition of jeepers in US English:
jeepers
(also jeepers creepers)
exclamationˈjēpərzˈdʒipərz
North American informal Used to express surprise or alarm.
Jeepers! Do you think she saw?
Example sentencesExamples
- She launches into a heart-melting ballad that has you thinking: jeepers, if this beautiful and talented lass can't find love, what chance do the rest of us have?
- I can tell because of the way she shrieks, ‘oh, my, jeepers, I wonder who this is from.’
- But I look again, because jeepers, he sure looks a lot like CK.
- It's with no small amount of self-consciousness that you write or read - or, jeepers, review - a book on snobbery.
- People were saying jeepers, creepers when Harry Redknapp paid £5m for him.
Origin
1920s: alteration of Jesus.