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TPB

TPB is the initialism of trade paperback.

Meaning of trade paperback

Noun

trade paperback (plural trade paperbacks)

  1. A softcover edition of a previously hardcover book, usually produced with the exact same text as the hardcover.
  2. A paperback book that is in one of the standard sizes for small paperbacks, generally for genre fiction.
  3. A type of comic book primarily containing previously published material, traditionally in a periodical format, and bound together as one work, or part of a series itself.

Forms of TPB

pluralTPBs

Questions about TPB

What is TPB the initialism of?
TPB is the initialism of trade paperback.

Words near TPB in the dictionary

  1. tp's
  2. TPA
  3. TPACK
  4. TPAP
  5. TPAs
  6. TPB
  7. TPBs
  8. TPC
  9. TPCPD
  10. tPCT
  11. tPCTs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: TPB (page history and authors); trade paperback (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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