Meanings
nounrepple depple (plural repple depples)
plural repple depples
- slanggovernmentA replacement depot.
Cartoonist and commentator Bill Mauldin, who served in the war, explains: When a soldier gets out of an army hospital he will most likely be thrown into a “repple depple.”
2006, Peter Karsten, Encyclopedia of War and American Society, page 1115
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Origin
From the initial syllables.
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