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rec

nounverbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ɹɛk//

To recommend.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of recreationinformalClipping of recreation.

    At 11 o'clock, school's out, and it's time for rec.

  2. 2

    Variant of recreation groundinformalClipping of recreation ground.

  3. 3

    Variant of recommendationinformalClipping of recommendation.

    “Got any recs?” “What are you looking for?” “Something angry,” I said.

    Your parents are suddenly old. Your kids are likely still very young, if you have them — many my age are exchanging fertility doctor recs the way we used to hype new bands.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo recommend.

  2. 2

    informalTo record.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of recreationalinformalClipping of recreational.

Forms

plural
recs
past tense
recced, reced, rec'd, rec'ed
past participle
recced, reced, rec'd, rec'ed
present participle
reccing, recing, rec'ing
third person singular
recs, rec's
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).