TP

¹

Or t.p.

[tee-pee]

noun

1. toilet paper.

verb (used with or without object)

TP'd, TPing 

1. to cover a house, a tree, or other structure, usually on someone’s home property, with strips of toilet paper, as a prank.

   We TP’d the English teacher’s house last Halloween.

t.p.

²

abbreviation

1. title page.

2. toilet paper.

3. Surveying.,  turning point.

tp.

³

abbreviation

1. township.

2. troop.

tp

abbreviation

1. East Timor

Word History and Origins

Origin of TP¹

First recorded in 1940–45 TP for def. 1, and in 1960–65 TP for def. 2; T(oilet) P(aper)

Example Sentences

When this happens, we run out of T.P. in the short-term, but the shortage doesn’t last long.

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“You told me you loved me, then bring me some groceries. I’m down to my last role of T.P.,” she sang as she opened her act with a raucous tune she said she’d written just the day before to sum up what weeks of self-isolation has been like.

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My husband and I wondered: Who was the T.P. fairy?

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On Sunday, vendors at two Los Angeles-area swap meets said they were clean out of T.P., the maddening symbol of coronavirus panic shopping.

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The California lawsuit described a 13-year-old boy from Norwalk as T.P. who loves Disneyland and has been diagnosed with autism, severe obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and having anxiety attacks.

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