Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Dep

English answer:

uttering a sound when going over a button

Added to glossary by Mohamed Fouda
Feb 18, 2022 12:17
2 yrs ago
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English term

Dep

Non-PRO English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
A PJ Kid: PJ Robot's our inside guy!
Maybe he can get control of it.
He's our only hope.
If we lose HQ, we lose everything!
PJ Robot! Sneak away and, um,
stop the rocket from blasting off!
Robot: Hello!
Wolfie: It's gotta be one of these buttons!
Wolfie: Dep, dep, dep...
Wolfie: You are it.
Wolfie: And away we go!
A PJ Kid: PJ Robot, engines off.

One of the villains who took over the HQ is pressing on several keys and says dep, dep, dep.
Change log

Feb 18, 2022 12:30: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from " " to " Cinema, Film, TV, Drama"

Discussion

AllegroTrans Feb 18, 2022:
Definitely meaningless Tak, tak, tak
philgoddard Feb 18, 2022:
It can't be the sound of him pushing buttons - that would be a sound effect, not him speaking. I think writeaway's solution is more likely.

Mohamed: A lot of your answers are appearing multiple times. This has happened to me before, and I think it may have been because I was being impatient with the server - sometimes it can take a minute or two for your comment to appear.
writeaway Feb 18, 2022:
I saw it as a substitute for um um um or something like that. So basically meaningless. Agree with Tony M
Mohamed Fouda (asker) Feb 18, 2022:
@Tony I thought so, too. I just wanted to make sure. Things could sound easy to guess. But as you know, assumptions are tricky.
Yvonne Gallagher Feb 18, 2022:
@ Asker with Tony
Tony M Feb 18, 2022:
@ Asker Nothing readily springs to mind, but consider that it might possibly be the person's attempted onomatapœia for the sound of pushing a button?

Responses

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uttering a sound when going over a button

He was going over "these buttons" one by one, and uttered "dep" when going over a button. If it was not the right button, he would skip to the next.
Peer comment(s):

neutral writeaway : See dbox. It was explained there
22 hrs
neutral AllegroTrans : Already explained in dbox
3 days 5 hrs
neutral Yvonne Gallagher : already explained in a much clearer way. "going over a button"??
5 days
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