"ept" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from inept; compare apt.",
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      "form": "more ept",
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          "ref": "1984, Military Intelligence - Volumes 10-12, page 62:",
          "text": "These behaviors, developed in extremely bad basic and advanced training conditions were continued in better situations under more ept leadership.",
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          "ref": "1991, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics, Preliminary Inquiry Into Allegations Regarding Senators Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, McCain, and Riegle, and Lincoln Savings and Loan:",
          "text": "...known the ways of the world in Washington, and may not have been as one of my colleagues in the legislature said, \"very ept\", when it came to this stuff.",
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          "ref": "1991, Anne Geller, M. J. Territo, Restore your life: a living plan for sober people, page 133:",
          "text": "They're confident, calm, at ease, talkative, cheerful, and above all, socially very \"ept.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "And someone who wasn't glacier ept might have thought the mouth of a glacier a great place to hide a body for a long, long time.",
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        "Skillful and knowledgeable; adept."
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        "(nonstandard or humorous) Skillful and knowledgeable; adept."
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        [
          "eep",
          "eep#English"
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        "(Internet slang, humorous) simple past of eep"
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          "text": "And someone who wasn't glacier ept might have thought the mouth of a glacier a great place to hide a body for a long, long time.",
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