tar out
English
Verb
tar out (third-person singular simple present tars out, present participle tarring out, simple past and past participle tarred out)
- (transitive, slang, dated) To punish; to pay back or take revenge on.
- 1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga:
- We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.
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References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary