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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
toilet paper
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After cleaning, the area should be dried most carefully with absorbent toilet paper or tissues.
▪ Books had long since been recycled into toilet paper and what have you.
▪ I stuffed toilet paper in my ears and kept my mouth open.
▪ Second example: Several years ago Johnny Carson jokingly predicted a toilet paper shortage.
▪ She uses rags instead of toilet paper, which drives my father nuts.
▪ Showers spray everywhere, creating soggy toilet paper and slippery floors.
▪ Will they get recycled toilet paper?
Wiktionary
toilet paper

n. Paper, usually on a roll, to clean oneself after defecation, or to pat oneself dry after urination. (abbreviated: TP) vb. (context US English) To cover someone's house (and trees and shrubs) with toilet paper or other similar paper product, often as a celebratory event, without the "victim's" knowledge. Sometimes also performed as an act of hazing.

WordNet
toilet paper

n. a soft thin absorbent paper for use in toilets [syn: toilet tissue, bathroom tissue]

Wikipedia
Toilet paper

Toilet paper is a tissue paper product primarily used for wiping and cleaning the anus and surrounding area of fecal material after defecation and by human females for cleaning the perineal area of urine after urination and other bodily fluid releases. It also acts as a layer of protection for the hands during these processes. It is sold as a long strip of perforated paper wrapped around a paperboard core for storage in a dispenser by a toilet. Most modern toilet paper in the developed world is designed to decompose in septic tanks, whereas some other bathroom and facial tissues are not. Toilet paper comes in one-ply all the way up to six-ply, meaning that it is either a single sheet or multiple sheets placed back-to-back to make it thicker, softer, stronger and more absorbent.

The use of paper for hygiene purposes has been recorded in China in the 6th century AD, with specifically manufactured toilet paper being mass-produced in the 14th century. Modern commercial toilet paper originated in the 19th century, with a patent for roll-based dispensers being made in 1883.

Toilet Paper (South Park)

"Toilet Paper" is the third episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 99th episode of the series overall. It first aired on Comedy Central on April 2, 2003. In the episode, the boys decide to get revenge on their art teacher for giving them detention by covering her house in toilet paper. Kyle starts having nightmares about the ordeal and is desperate to confess, but Cartman goes all out to stop him.

The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker and is rated TV-MA L in the United States. The character Josh parodied Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in films based on the novels of Thomas Harris.

Toilet paper (disambiguation)

Toilet paper may refer to:

  • Toilet paper, (also toilet roll in the UK), a soft tissue paper product used to maintain personal hygiene
  • "Toilet Paper" (South Park episode), an episode of the animated television series

Usage examples of "toilet paper".

The other children thought he must be pottering with the same kind of thing as outside, comical orphans or cotton and toilet paper brides.

I daubed at my lip with a piece of wet toilet paper until it stopped bleeding, and then I began to shake like a leaf and start to cry.

All he had to do was cover his hands with toilet paper or whatever when he touched anything.

Your chances of catching a used wad of toilet paper would be better.

Bits of the store - boards, shingles, flaming boxes of Cheerios, burning rolls of toilet paper - rose into the sky.

He thought of a Kleenex, but the only thing he had was toilet paper, all the way upstairs in the bathroom—.