Tar
//tɑː//
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Verb
Proper Noun
The word "tar" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.
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Archangel tar Athabasca tar sands Jack Tar Stockholm tar Tar Heel beat the tar out of birch tar black as tar black tar coal tar gas tar green tar jacktar juniper tar mineral tar pine tar pitch-tar slow as tar spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar tar and feather tar baby tar board tar boil tar derby tar out tar paper tar pit tar sand tar spot tar water tar with the same brush tar with the same stick tar-black tarball tarbomb tarbrush tarfile tarlike tarmac tarmacadam tarpaulin tarpot tarweed the tackies hit the tar touch of the tar brush untar wood tar
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adhesive and feather asphalt besmirch black black asphalt black cement black colour black gunk black pavement black pitch black pudding black sticky black street black tar blackness building building material cement cigarettes cigarettes roads coal tar coat colour computer program drink feather file frame drum glue goo gooey gunk heroin hungary hydrocarbons jack tar material melted melted asphalt mixture pavement paving pitch pudding rat repair reverse reverse rat road road glue road goo road material road repair road surface roads sailor sludge smelly sticky sticky black sticky substance street stuff substance surface tarpaulin tobacco unix
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