tarp

[tahrp]

noun

1. tarpaulin.

TARP

¹

/ tɑːp /

acronym

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

tarp

²

/ tɑːp /

noun

1. an informal word for tarpaulin

Word History and Origins

Origin of TARP¹

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; by shortening

Example Sentences

The poignant mixed-media painting doubles as a large shop façade of crumbling, graffitied ceramic tiles with signage attached on a tarp.

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Glenn has used questions to prompt immediate executive action, such as the removal of the White House Peace Vigil tarp — a round-the-clock protest for global disarmament that stood in Lafayette Square since 1981.

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But two decades on, the grim reaper still walks the rows: 110 degrees, no tree, no tarp, a single water jug growing warm, its handle slick from dust and hands.

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They sleep in dirty, overcrowded shipping containers, infested with bugs, or on the floor of unfinished apartment blocks, with tarps pulled over the door frames to try to keep out the cold.

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Duran and Morales were there too, asleep inside an orange tent, a black tarp draped over it for shade.

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