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turpentine 

A thin volatile essential oil, C10H16, obtained by steam distillation or other means from the wood or exudate of certain pine trees and used as a paint thinner, solvent, and medicinally as a liniment.

The sticky mixture of resin and volatile oil from which turpentine is distilled.

A brownish-yellow resinous liquid obtained from the terebinth.
oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine
turpentine by blacksaibot October 29, 2005

turpentini 

To accidentally ingest turpentine, paint thinner, gasoline, or other toxic liquids.
While working on his kitchen, David reached for his coffee cup, but got a turpentini instead.

Be careful with that siphon, dude. You don't want a turpentini.
turpentini by kaysodowsky April 17, 2008

moral turpentine

1.All purpose sin remover

2.Prayer
The evangelical preacher was an inveterate thief and a serial child molester. Still. the application of a little moral turpentine assured his place in Heaven. He was always careful to pray extra hard after what he'd call an incident.
moral turpentine by Pbaddy August 22, 2009

turpentine cat 

Term used by people of the Southern persuasion to identify something moving at a pace that borders on the supernatural. First seen in the 1920's when a group of men rubbed a cat's cinnamon ring with a dried out corncob until it was raw, and then wiped it with a rag soaked in turpentine. Can be used interchangeably with raped ape
I was doin my girl, and when my friends started the rodeo dat hizzo took off like a turpentine cat.
turpentine cat by bob44 February 9, 2005

turpentiniferous 

adj. ter-pen-tahy-NIF-er-uhs 1. pertaining to or experiencing the feeling in one's brain/body after having too many bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 (or similar cheap liquor) in one evening. 2. The smell of one's breath &/or body the day after such an event.
So turpentiniferous was Bobby after his bachelor party, even his fish shunned his wretched stench as his bulk shambled into the loo to disgorge his bladder.

turpentine 

Adj. 1) The state of being superior to items of a similar nature.
Noun. 1) An item of particularly superior quality which enable it to dominate over other items of a similar but inferior nature.
Adj. 1) It was turpentine when I busted that 180 kickflip the other day.
Noun. 1) The taco is the straight turpentine my home skizzle.
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