Meanings
depresh1
- colloquialuncountableDepression, melancholy.
I got downsized two years ago. It's been rough. Going through a little bit of a depresh.
2012 November 19, “The Stamp Tramp”, in How I Met Your Mother, season 8, episode 7, spoken by Brad (Joe Manganiello)
alternative Depresh
- archaiccolloquialhistoricalThe Great Depression.
And why say that Bessie spent all her money on expensive china, goblets, silver, and wouldn't listen when she, her mother, told her to remember the bad years before the war, the Depresh, and save her money? Bessie liked her job at Auerbachs; she got a discount on her purchases.
2005, Helen Papanikolas, Rain in the Valley: A Novel, Logan, U.T.: Utah State University Press, →ISBN, page 150
Depresh2
- Alternative letter-case form of depresh.
Origin
Clipping of depression.
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