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turp

turp is the clipping of turpentine.

Meaning of turpentine

Noun

turpentine (countable and uncountable, plural turpentines)

  1. Any oleoresin secreted by the wood or bark of certain trees.
  2. A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.
  3. (Australia) A turpentine tree (genus Syncarpia).
    • Turpentine timber was obtained from the forests outside Maryborough and Townsville, and shipped by rail and landing craft to Hayman Island.1954 March, “The Hayman Island Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 207

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Noun capitalized: TURP

TURP (plural TURPs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of transurethral resection of the prostate.

Forms of turp

pluralturps
pluralTURPs

Questions about turp

What is turp the clipping of?
Turp is the clipping of turpentine.
What part of speech is turp?
Turp is a noun.
What is the plural of turp?
The plural of turp is turps.

Words near turp in the dictionary

  1. turosteride
  2. Turow
  3. Turowski
  4. Turowskis
  5. Turoyo
  6. turp
  7. Turpan
  8. turpaulin
  9. turpaulins
  10. Turpen
  11. Turpens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turp (page history and authors); TURP (page history and authors); turpentine (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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