PARP

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

parp

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

Noun

parp (plural parps)

(informal) The sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind.

Verb

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

(informal, transitive) To sound a car horn.

(informal, intransitive) To make the sound of a car horn.

(informal, intransitive) To break wind.

(informal) To talk nonsense.

Anagrams

• PAPR, Rapp, appr, appr.

Noun

PARP (countable and uncountable, plural PARPs)

(biology) Initialism of polyADP-ribose polymerase.

Anagrams

• PAPR, Rapp, appr, appr.

Source: Wiktionary



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