TAR


Meaning of TAR in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ tɑ:(r) ]

( tars, tarring, tarred)

1.

Tar is a thick black sticky substance that is used especially for making roads.

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2.

Tar is one of the poisonous substances contained in tobacco.

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3.

If some people in a group behave badly and if people then wrongly think that all of the group is equally bad, you can say that the whole group is tarred with the same brush .

I am a football supporter and I have to often explain that I’m not one of the hooligan sort because we’ll all get tarred with the same brush when there’s trouble.

PHRASE : V inflects

4.

see also tarred

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