pep talk
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (colloquial) A rallying speech made to instill enthusiasm and boost confidence
- Synonym: (US) pep rally
- It's your turn to give a pep talk to the dispirited miners.
- 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pep talk.
Translations[edit]
a rallying speech made to instill enthusiasm
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References[edit]
- “Pep talk, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2007.