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Sep. 13, 2014
Word of the Day

geep Audio Pronunciation
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\geep\
noun
1. the hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep.
Quotes
One of his goat-plus-sheep chimeras, known colloquially as a geep, was featured on the cover of Nature.
-- Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and Colin Tudge, The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control, 2000
Origin
Geep is a portmanteau from the 1970s that combines the words goat and sheep.
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