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Meaning of tar out | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To punish; to pay back or take revenge on.

dated, slang, transitive

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

tar with the same brush tar with the same stick tar-and-feather tar-and-feathered tar-and-feathering tar-and-feathers