There are many theories around the origin of the “jeep” word, but the most believed one is that the early off-road vehicles were named “GP” – standing for ‘Governmental Purposes’ or ‘General Purpose’ – and eventually the word got phonetically slurred in pronunciation until it became ‘jeep’.
Another popular theory tells that the word ‘jeep’ came from a cartoon character from Popeye cartoons that “c... more