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Pepe

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈpɛpeɪ//

An image or depiction of the Pepe the Frog character.

noun

  1. 1

    An image or depiction of the Pepe the Frog character.

    Alternate iterations of Pepe, including sad, smug and angry Pepes, followed. Pepe memes are ubiquitous across 4chan, Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, and other social media and image-sharing sites.

    One thread filled up with hundreds of Pepes to help meme Florida over to Trump, as if their energy could help Florida stay red.

Etymology

The character's creator, Matt Furie, chose the name Pepe because it reminded him of the term pee-pee, a resemblance he found funny.

Forms

plural
Pepes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).