(~s, ~ring, ~red)
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 ~red 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 ~red with the same brush when there’s trouble.
PHRASE: V inflects
4.
see also ~red