parp

Interjection

1. (informal) Representing the sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind.

Noun (1)

parp (plural parps)

1. (informal) The sound of a horn or breaking wind.

Verb

parp (third-person singular simple present parps, present participle parping, simple past and past participle parped)

1. (informal, transitive) To sound a horn.
2. (informal, intransitive) To make the sound of a horn.
3. (informal, intransitive) To break wind.
4. (informal) To talk nonsense.

Noun (2) capitalized: PARP

PARP (countable and uncountable, plural PARPs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of polyADP-ribose polymerase.
   • In the chromatin, polyADP-ribosylation apparently regulates the interaction of PARPs and their substrates with protein partners and DNA.2009, Dana Inbar-Rozensal, “A selective eradication of human nonhereditary breast cancer cells by phenanthridine-derived polyADP-ribose polymerase inhibitors”, in Breast Cancer Research