STP
See also: stp
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editSTP (countable and uncountable, plural STPs)
- Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
- (physics, chemistry) Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
- (networking) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
- (electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
- (especially LGBTQ) Initialism of stand-to-pee.
- (uncountable, slang) A hallucinogen (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine), chemically related to amphetamine but with LSD-like effects. [from 20th c.]
- 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
- “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.
- 2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 128:
- I could not correctly estimate what I was experiencing, and the strychnine in the STP began cramping my belly.
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- (construction) Initialism of subject to planning.
- This building would suit alternative uses STP.
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- (music) Stone Temple Pilots, an American rock band.
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