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SLEP

noun

SLEP is a noun meaning “Acronym of service life extension program/programme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-L-E-P, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of SLEP is SLEPs.

What does SLEP mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Acronym of service life extension program/programme

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of SLEP

  • SLEPs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is SLEP?

SLEP appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does SLEP come from?

Abbreviation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).