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

Next to the pit, where at least some vegetation appeared to have been used as fuel, was a mattress, shopping cart and tarp.

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Large blue plastic tarps were stretched across the square in the city's Spanish Quarters on Thursday.

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As the afternoon wore on, the family used rope scavenged from a neighbor’s courtyard to secure a tarp between two taller chunks of concrete.

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Earlier this year, prison officials had taken down black tarps that had prevented inmates from seeing beyond the camp’s perimeter fencing.

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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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