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Earp

American  
[urp] / ɜrp /

noun

  1. Wyatt Berry Stapp, 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.


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You half expect it to be accompanied by a few sound effects: a clonk here, a parp there.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019

Once he realised that White Hart Lane was no place for his comedy japes Zlatan sunk into a familiar sulk, only occasionally livening up to deliver a token parp of his comedy horn.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2011

"I can't see me loving anybody but you for all my life," they sing as the trumpets parp their agreement.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2010

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