Define Turpentine Meaning

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
By Jayme
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.
By Phoebe
Turpentine
Lord of all

By Oralia
Moral Turpentine

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.
By Siusan
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.
By Thomasa
Monkey Turpentine

The fresh monkey turpentine excited the children who eagerly yearned for a white Christmas.
By Elyssa