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The military designation for the vehicle was GP for General Purpose. It quickly became Jeep when said and the name stuck.

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It is often said that the word Jeep is an acronym of GPV meaning General Purpose Vehicle. The short form became GP which eventually , for easily linguistic purposes became Jeep.


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