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Definition of turps in English: turpsnoun təːpstərps mass nouninformal Turpentine. 〈非正式〉同TURPENTINE Example sentencesExamples - Her eyes challenged me, potent, like a peregrine falcon's, but the beguiling scent of turps and linseed oil drew me to her canvas.
- I've tasted bad coffee, but never anything that actually tasted of turps.
- Ms Hood had a shaky start to her artistic career when she developed an allergy to turps.
- Or he had rubbed against something like turps, or even been maliciously splashed with it.
- After manipulating the digital image, Coderre then begins drawing the subject, or picture as he likes to call it, in oil pastel, wiping it away with turps, building up layer upon transparent layer.
- I'm not sure if I need more turps, I'll have to check.
- He works mainly in oils diluted with turps, sensuously creaming paint on to the canvas.
- ‘You must have drunk a lot of orange juice,’ he said, implying I would have been safer with turps.
- The night Vine painted her now infamous Diana painting, the air was thick with the smell of turps, linseed oil and paint.
- Almost complete, Honister dominates a studio where massive brushes await the maestro's stroke and heavy smells of linseed oil and turps fill the still hot afternoon air.
Phrasesinformal Drinking alcohol, especially in large quantities. I can go to the pub and get on the turps Example sentencesExamples - We got on the turps on Friday night and neither of us was much good on Saturday.
- He has a sense of humour, applies himself to his work, loves sport, and enjoys a night on the turps with his brother and his mates.
- It only seems like yesterday he was throwing up in the back garden after a heavy night on the turps.
- Can you imagine anything better than a hot roast pork sandwich after a night on the turps?
- Only a tiny minority of this group are daring enough to even contemplate another punishing night on the turps.
- Getting on the turps was easy and relatively cheap.
- He can't remember much else about his night on the turps.
- After a nasty night on the turps, we headed for a recovery breakfast.
- It's not like I spent the weekend on the turps or anything—it was just one of those weeks where I was run down to a bare nub by Friday night.
- Christmas cheer has played a big part in this: these people have been on the turps all afternoon.
OriginEarly 19th century: abbreviation. Definition of turps in US English: turpsnountərpstərps informal Turpentine. 〈非正式〉同TURPENTINE Example sentencesExamples - I've tasted bad coffee, but never anything that actually tasted of turps.
- The night Vine painted her now infamous Diana painting, the air was thick with the smell of turps, linseed oil and paint.
- ‘You must have drunk a lot of orange juice,’ he said, implying I would have been safer with turps.
- He works mainly in oils diluted with turps, sensuously creaming paint on to the canvas.
- Almost complete, Honister dominates a studio where massive brushes await the maestro's stroke and heavy smells of linseed oil and turps fill the still hot afternoon air.
- Her eyes challenged me, potent, like a peregrine falcon's, but the beguiling scent of turps and linseed oil drew me to her canvas.
- I'm not sure if I need more turps, I'll have to check.
- Ms Hood had a shaky start to her artistic career when she developed an allergy to turps.
- Or he had rubbed against something like turps, or even been maliciously splashed with it.
- After manipulating the digital image, Coderre then begins drawing the subject, or picture as he likes to call it, in oil pastel, wiping it away with turps, building up layer upon transparent layer.
OriginEarly 19th century: abbreviation. |