STP

See also: stp

Translingual

Symbol

STP

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for São Tomé and Príncipe.

   Synonym: ST (alpha-2)

English

Noun

STP (countable and uncountable, plural STPs)

1. Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
2. (physics, chemistry) Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
3. (networking) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
4. (electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
5. (especially LGBT) Initialism of stand-to-pee.
6. (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.

Adjective

STP

1. (construction) Initialism of subject to planning.

   This building would suit alternative uses STP.

Related terms

(shielded twisted pair):

• UTP, TP
• silver tape

See also

• spanning tree protocol
• twisted pair, unshielded twisted pair

Anagrams

• PST, PTS, PTs, SPT, TPS, TPs, TSP, pst, pts, pts., tp's, tsp