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hp

1

abbreviation

  1. horsepower.



H.P.

2
Or h.p.,

abbreviation

  1. Electricity.,  high power.

  2. high pressure.

  3. horsepower.

HP

abbreviation

  1. hire-purchase

  2. horsepower

  3. high pressure

  4. (in Britain) Houses of Parliament

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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In his most famous work, “The Call of Cthulhu,” science fiction writer H.P.

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Where the monsters of “Monsters” are all recognizably human, “Grotesquerie” suggests something more cosmic at work, like a darkness summoned in a story by horror master H.P.

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This haunted house is inspired by the horror fiction writer H.P.

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Public Library; Clark Ashton Smith’s letters to his fellow horror writer H.P.

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And with our epochal rains, some of these old bodies have risen to assert themselves again, which sounds like something out of H.P.

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