Treps, short for entrepreneurs: people who take risks and build businesses. Use was started on Twitter, to help keep Tweets under the 140 character limit. "Treps" most often refers to people who start a business with a lot of passion and little (or no) money.
Treps are the REAL job-creators, not old guys in suits!
the act traversing downhill terrain by sliding and when necessary scooching, predominately on ones tokhes or rear end. Some Andean cultures in South America have been known to slide on their side.
The word comes the hidden lake region of Squaw Valley and is derived from words Trapse and Trek.
present participle: trepsing
Tried, after a savage ice fight, the troops trepsed down the hillside, deftly navigating the forest.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)