parp

1. informalRepresenting the sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind.

plural parps

1. informalThe sound of a horn or breaking wind.

present singular third person parps · participle present parping · participle past parped · past parped

1. informaltransitiveTo sound a horn.
2. informalintransitiveTo make the sound of a horn.
3. informalintransitiveTo break wind.
4. informalTo talk nonsense.

plural PARPs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebiologyInitialism of polyADP-ribose polymerase.

   In the chromatin, polyADP-ribosylation apparently regulates the interaction of PARPs and their substrates with protein partners and DNA.

   2009, Dana Inbar-Rozensal, “A selective eradication of human nonhereditary breast cancer cells by phenanthridine-derived polyADP-ribose polymerase inhibitors”, in Breast Cancer Research