1. A person who writes eloquent nonfiction, usually about fiction or poetry; a person known to publish critical articles and books. 2. A quiet, intelligent personality who writes. 3. Smart, gifted, expressive, articulate.
She was a turpin for Random House, known to produce significant volumes of criticism on modern poetry.
Because of the high recommendations by his previous employers, the company hired him as the Managing Turpin in the Editorial Division.
When I grow up, I want to be a turpin so I can be a famous critic.
1 (n.) A person who spends his days chundering and fighting welsh people, mostly those from swansea.. also has suspiciously long showers cracking one out and spaffing on the floor for everyone else to stand on
OMG i let you in the shower to clean the chunder out of your hair and you go and flog the dolphin your such a turpin
Small town on the edge of Oklahoma. Near Liberal, Kansas.
Capital of gossip, Boring town home of the Turpin Cardinals and of the most disliked teacher that likes scented candles shaped like green apples.
A public high school in the Greater Cincinnati Area where they put you into classes to be indoctrinated into the 1619 project, and if you don’t understand what they’re preaching after the first try, they’ll throw you into a janitor’s closet and whoop your ass. The place is sort of like Auschwitz but without any of the notoriety.
When I went to Turpin High School I didn’t understand that Karl Marx was apparently the second coming of Christ, and so they beat me with a paddle. My ass is still red from it to this day.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).