PCP

Definition: PCP

PCP

Noun

1. A drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: PCP

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
PCP	Danish	Englestøv	N/A
PCP	Dutch	Surfer	N/A
PCP	English	Angel dust	N/A
PCP	French	Poudre d'ange	N/A
PCP	German	Engelstaub	N/A
PCP	Greek	αγγελόσκονη	N/A
PCP	Italian	Polvere d'angelo	N/A
PCP	Latin	Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis	Medicine
PCP	Portuguese	Pó de anjo	N/A
PCP	Spanish	Polvo de ángel	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: PCP

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, the disease
phencyclidine, the drug
Probabilistically Checkable Proof, a notion in the theory of Computational Complexity

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PCP."

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Synonyms: PCP

Synonyms: angel dust (n), phencyclidine (n), phencyclidine hydrochloride (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: PCP

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Intemperance	Bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PCP

Specialty definitions using "PCP": Posted county price ♦ Receptors, Phencyclidine. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PCP

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on PCP Dependence (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Lsd, Pcp, & Other Hallucinogens (Junior Drug Awareness) (reference) Lsd, Pcp, and Hallucinogen Drug Dangers (Drug Dangers (Cloth)) (reference) Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Precision Castparts Corp. - PCP [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Pcp (reference) Pcp (Drug Library) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: PCP

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Carroll, M.E. PCP and hallucinogens. (references)
		Some persist in using PCP because of its addicting properties. (references)
		PCP users may become severely disoriented, violent, or suicidal. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PCP

"PCP" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.17% of the time. "PCP" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	88.17%	82	36,594
Noun (common)	7.53%	7	133,076
Noun (singular)	4.3%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	93	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: PCP

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "PCP": anti-pcp.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: PCP

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: PCP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words containing the letters "c-p-p"
	+2 letters: cuppa, cuppy.
	+3 letters: capped, capper, chippy, choppy, copped, copper, coppra, crappy, cuppas, cupped, cupper, papacy, peptic, pickup.
	+4 letters: apocarp, apocope, cappers, capping, chapped, chipped, chipper, chippie, chopped, chopper, clapped, clapper, clipped, clipper, clopped, copepod, coppers, coppery, coppice, copping, coppras, cowplop, crapped, crapper, crappie, cripple, cropped, cropper, croppie, crupper, cuppers, cuppier, cupping, epicarp, paprica, peptics, percept, pickups, popcorn, precept, precipe, precoup, prepack, prepuce, priapic, procarp, sapphic, schappe, schlepp, scrappy, scupper.
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