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STP en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of subject to planning.
    • This building would suit alternative uses STP.

STP en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, qualifier:especially LGBTQ, uncountable) Initialism of stand-to-pee.
  6. (slang, uncountable) A hallucinogen (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine), chemically related to amphetamine but with LSD-like effects.
    • “Don,” she cries, breathless. “We got some STP today.” At this time STP is a pretty big deal, remember; nobody yet knew what it was and it was relatively, although just relatively, hard to come by. 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
    • I could not correctly estimate what I was experiencing, and the strychnine in the STP began cramping my belly. 2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 128:

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Source: en.wiktionary, “STP” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.