geep

plural geeps

1. A sheep–goat hybrid, an animal with DNA from a goat and from a sheep, whether produced artificially or by natural intermating.

   Synonyms: shoat

plural Geeps

1. informalrail transportA nickname for the EMD GP series diesel locomotives.

   Norfolk & Western was a workhorse of another strain. It dieselized in theory if not in practice a couple of decades before the first Geep hit the property.

   1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.