Talk:Jeepers Creepers

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Jeepers Creepers is a 20th-century euphemism for "Jesus Christ", and a colloquial U.S. interjection used as a mild swearing expressing surprise.<!--AS OF JUNE 2007, WE HAVE NO WIKTIONARY ENTRY FOR "Jeepers Creepers", SO WE GIVE READERS A DECENT DICDEF HERE FOR NOW -->

but dictdefs per se are never suitable on Dab pages. The closest we come to a dict def is when there is a primary topic (pretty doubtful in this case) and an article (hard to imagine that there ever will be), and then what is needed is a sub-dict def phrase: just enough that the rare user who got to the page other than from the HatNote on the primary topic's page (say via Random page, or What links here) will have the chance to understand what the primary topic is, and consider whether that is the meaning they had in mind. In the case of the accompanying Dab page, and assuming (oddly) that the expression per se would be the primary topic (making the Dab Jeepers Creepers (disambiguation), not Jeepers Creepers) then the Dab page would begin with its only sentence:

Jeepers Creepers is the exclamation.

If i had thot an article on that sense had any decent chance of passing AfD, i'd have created Jeepers Creepers (exclamation) as a stub with that text (to give it a chance to prove itself, and perhaps become a contender for a rename to the Primary-topic title), but it's now a total-dump-job stub at Wikt.
--Jerzy•t 02:46, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Removed RedLink'd entries

Each entry among the following should, when an article is written for it, be copied to the accompanying Dab page, and the copy struck thru.
--Jerzy•t 02:46, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

• Jeepers, Creepers, Where is Peepers?

  info for editors: One sentence summary within List of Dexter's Laboratory episodes#Season 3: 2001-2002 is pretty damn slim coverage, especially until templates are compatible with lk'g directly to the entry for the individual episode via constructs like

  <span id="Jeepers"/><!-- preceding tag is target from [[Jeepers Creepers]] -->

• Jeepers Creepers (1939 western)

  info for editors: a Frank McDonald<!--DO NOT LINK, IT GOES TO AN UNRELATED HOMONYM--> U.S. film starring Roy Rogers -- well, don't link to Roy either, the only info provided is that he plays guess who: "Jeepers Creepers (1939) .... Roy". Long-shot for an article or encyclopedic substitute

• "Jeepers Creepers Semi-star",

  info for editors: a musical skit from Mr. Show, meant to parody Jesus Christ Superstar; neither of those mentions it

• Jeepers Creepers, alias of 1962-1963 horror host Bob Guy on KCOP

  info for editors: Don't think about it unless you want it for the sub-trivia sentence of your Jeepers Creepers (exclamation) stub.

--Jerzy•t 02:46, 31 October 2008 (UTC)