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tarp

[ tahrp ]

tarp

1

/ tɑːp /

noun

  1. an informal word for tarpaulin


TARP

2

/ tɑːp /

acronym for

  1. Troubled Assets Relief Program: a fund providing money to increase the liquidity of financial institutions

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tarp1

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; by shortening

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Example Sentences

Instagram photos from that day show Finney and his crew setting up under a tarp outside.

I am carrying a well-worn satchel fashioned out of a recycled plastic tarp.

After he'd leashed the huskies up to the sled, Winkelmann deftly zipped me into a tarp-like blanket.

Just behind them, a tarp was pulled across a now flooded ditch.

The school is nothing more than a circle of rocks and stones and a tarp placed on the ground on which the students sit.

We put the things under a tarp, and I started to bring up the water, but General Ashley spoke.

Next thing was to make a smudge under and to lay a tarp over to hold the smudge while the meat should smoke.

Innumerable blankets, "tarp" beds, and war-sacks lay rolled ready for the pack-saddles.

He slept on Dan's tarp bed at night, and in the daytime led our long and winding procession.

Norris even made a sort of steamer chair of poles, using a double thickness of his tarp for the seat and back.

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