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  1. tar pits: Merriam-Webster
  2. tar pits: Vocabulary.com
  3. tar pits: Wiktionary
  4. Tar pits: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Tar pits: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See tar_pit as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tar pit)

noun:  Alternative form of tarpit [A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.]
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