Usually means: Coated with sticky black substance.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarred: Merriam-Webster
  2. tarred: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tarred: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tarred: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tarred, tarred: Wordnik
  6. tarred: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tarred: Wiktionary
  8. tarred: Dictionary.com
  9. tarred: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Tarred: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Tarred: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tarred: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. Tarred: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. tarred: FreeDictionary.org
  15. tarred: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarred: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarred: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarred: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarred: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarred: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (TAR)

noun:  (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
noun:  Coal tar.
noun:  (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
noun:  (slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
noun:  (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.
verb:  (transitive) To coat with tar.
verb:  (transitive) To besmirch.
noun:  (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
noun:  (computing) A file produced by such a program.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
noun:  A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
noun:  A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
noun:  A village in Hungary.
noun:  Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”) [(New Zealand, rare) The tern.]
noun:  (sometimes with the) Initialism of Tibet Autonomous Region, an administrative region of China. [An autonomous region of China, located on the Tibetan Plateau and part of Tibet, the home to the Tibetan people]
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