pep talk

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛp tɔːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛp ˌtɔk/, /ˈpɛp ˌtɑk/

Noun

pep talk (plural pep talks)

1. (colloquial) A rallying speech made to instill enthusiasm and boost confidence.

   Synonym: (US) pep rally

   It's your turn to give a pep talk to the dispirited miners.

   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pep talk.

Translations

a rallying speech made to instill enthusiasm

• Catalan: exhortació f, arenga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼓勵話 / 鼓励话 (gǔlìhuà), 動員發言 / 动员发言 (dòngyuán fāyán), 勉勵語 / 勉励语 (miǎnlìyǔ)

• Dutch: peptalk (nl) m
• Finnish: kannustuspuhe
• French: exhortation (fr) f, laïus d’encouragement m
• German: Aufmunterung (de) f, Anfeuerung f
• Hungarian: buzdító/lelkesítő beszéd
• Italian: discorso d'incoraggiamento m
• Japanese: 激励演説 (げきれいえんぜつ, gekirei enzetsu), 朝礼 (ja) (ちょうれい, chōrei) (at Japanese companies in the morning)
• Russian: воодушевля́ющая речь f (vooduševljájuščaja rečʹ), зажига́тельная речь f (zažigátelʹnaja rečʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: motivacijski govor m
• Spanish: arenga (es) f, mitin (es) m

References

• “Pep talk, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2007.