Zep n.
a Zeppelin airship; thus attrib.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Western Dly Press 25 Jan. 3/5: The ‘Zep’ shone on her light again. It me and the place lit up like day. Then they dropped another bomb. | |
| Somme-Times 31 July (2006) 118/2: You’ll hold me rather close because I’m scared of Zepps. | |
| Madcap of the School 70: ‘Are the Zepps likely to come, Miss Gibbs?’ enquired Ardiune. ‘Not so likely at this time of year as in winter’. | |
| Madcap of the School 71: ‘With proper preparation we might engineer a very neat little Zepp raid’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter in Dear Folks at Home (1919) 35: A big Zep flew high overhead. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dundee Courier 22 Oct. 5/7: [headline] America to build Super-Zepp. | |
| On Broadway 8 Aug. [synd. col.] Two morning tabloids assigned their hocus-focus experts to shoot tthe Zep. | |
| Western Gaz. 2 May 16/6: Zep Over Wembley [...] For the first time on Saturday London has had a visit from a German Zeppelin in peace time. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. WWI) Flesh in Armour 258: ‘[W]e saw the Zepp [...] just like a silver cigar’. | |
| (ref. to 1914) Sharpe of the Flying Squad 167: The Zep with the searchlights on it came over very close to the police-station at Hackney. | |
| Dundee Courier 4 Aug. 7/4: ‘ep’ off AScottish Coast [...] The Graf Zeppelin was sighted from the Mearns and Aberdeen coast yesterday. | |
| Guardian G2 7 July 22: The protective mixture of iron oxide and aluminium painted onto the zep’s exterior [...] would go off like a flare. |
In phrases
sausage and mash, but note orig. use cite 1916.
| [ | | Day Book (Chicago) 12 Nov. 32/2: [from London Sketch] Little Zep that flies so light, / Drop no bombs on me tonight;' / Up above the world so high / Like a sausage in the sky]. |
| New York Day by Day 23 June. [synd. col.] A Houston Street waiter call[ed] out ‘Two Zeppelins on a Cloud.’ Translated it means that the patron wanted two sausages on a fried egg. | |
| Yorks Eve. Post 16 Oct. 5/4: The jargon of the ‘Tommy’ [...] is a never-ending source of wonder to canteen workers and barmaids [...] When a ‘Zeppelin and cloud’ is asked for, the purchaser wants [...] ‘sausage and mash’. | |
| Mint (1955) 161: There were Zepps in a cloud (sausages and mashed) and Adam and Eve on a raft (Hoxtonian for fried eggs on toast) as main dishes. | |
| Bath Chron. 4 Aug. 25/6: The proprietor of a small City restaurant rattled off the following [...] ‘Joe Blake,’ rump steak [...] ‘Zeppelin in a cloud,’ sausage and mash. | |
| Picture Post Mar. n.p.: [as used in J. Lyons’ Corner Houses] Airship in a Cloud: Sausage and mash. |