turps

British  

/ tɜːps /

noun

1. short for turpentine

2. slang alcoholic drink, esp beer (esp in the phrase on the turps )

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Example Sentences

Now I entered a room that seemed to withdraw from me and stood, hesitating, in the doorway, like an uninvited guest, inhaling the familiar smells of oil paint and turps.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019

Oh no, you'll always get your turps topped up Chez Small Talk, Lawro.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011

To this end he would whip up weird mayonnaises of wax, turps, asphaltum, eggs, resin and oil.

From Time Magazine Archive

Don't I wish we had some turps, or some of that pig fat we've got in our cellar.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

When thoroughly dry, the ferns may be coloured with oil paint thinned with turps and varnish, sufficient to give lustre without shininess.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu