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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An abbreviation of tropic, tropical, or tropically.

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Examples

  • Des que je souleve ne serait-ce qu'un bras ou que je dis une phrase trop longue (oui je peux reparler aussi!!) je m'essouffle comme un boeuf!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • The rest of dinner was perfectly decent but a little confused in some of the pairings – a starter of beetroot soup, salmon tartare and frito Mallorquín lamb's offal with fried potato, aubergine and peppers seemed a little de trop.

    Cycling gastro tour of Mallorca: meals on wheels 2011

  • Je suis desolee mais mon francais n'est pas trop bon.

    livre d'or - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Il fait gris mais pas trop froid ici dans le Massachusetts.

    bibi - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Merci pour tous les mots du jour, mais attention à la «gastro» dont pourraient souffrir ceux qui font trop bonne chère!

    stagiaire - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • The rest of dinner was perfectly decent but a little confused in some of the pairings – a starter of beetroot soup, salmon tartare and frito Mallorquín lamb's offal with fried potato, aubergine and peppers seemed a little de trop.

    Cycling gastro tour of Mallorca: meals on wheels 2011

  • Perhaps it was de trop considering this isn't the Middle Eastern conflict, darling, just a sloshed fashion designer, slurring vilely, but also fashion enfant terrible-style, about "dirty Jews", "gassing" and "I love Hitler".

    If only John Galliano's hate rant was a one-off | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • I sorely wanted to post (in-your-face raunch, you have been warned) this image but thought it might be de trop even for me.

    Witchy woman 2009

  • Français · Inde: Le meurtre de trop qui bouleverse l'état du Manipur

    Global Voices in English » India: Manipur Erupts Over A Murder 2009

  • I sorely wanted to post (in-your-face raunch, you have been warned) this image but thought it might be de trop even for me.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

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