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• tar and feather someone — phrase in the past, to cover someone with tar and feathers as a punishment Thesaurus: punishment of being hithyponym Main entry: tar * * * tar and feather (someone) 1 : to cover (someone) with tar and then with feathers as an old fas …   Useful english dictionary

• tar and feather someone — in the past, to cover someone with tar and feathers as a punishment …   English dictionary

• tar and feather — phrasal : to smear (a person) with tar and cover with feathers as a punishment or indignity tarred and feathered them and rode them out of town on a rail * * * tar and feather see under ↑tar1 • • • Main Entry: ↑feather tar and feather To smear… …   Useful english dictionary

• tar-and-feather — verb smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment The thief was tarred and feathered • Hypernyms: ↑punish, ↑penalize, ↑penalise • Entailment: ↑cover …   Useful english dictionary

• tar — I UK [tɑː(r)] / US [tɑr] noun [uncountable] 1) a thick black liquid made from coal, used especially for making the surfaces of roads 2) a sticky poisonous substance from tobacco that people who smoke cigarettes get in their lungs low tar… …   English dictionary

• tar — tar1 [ta: US ta:r] n [U] [: Old English; Origin: teoru] 1.) a black substance, thick and sticky when hot but hard when cold, used especially for making road surfaces →↑coal tar 2.) a sticky substance that forms when tobacco burns, and that gets… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• tar — 1 noun (U) 1 a black substance, thick and sticky when hot but hard when cold, used especially for making road surfaces see also: coal tar 2 a sticky substance that is formed by burning tobacco: high/low/medium tar: high tar cigarettes 2 verb… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• tar — I. /ta / (say tah) noun 1. any of various dark coloured viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, such as coal, wood, etc. 2. coal tar pitch. 3. the resinous partially combusted material produced in… …  

• tar — tar1 [ tar ] noun uncount 1. ) a thick black liquid made from coal, used especially for making the surfaces of roads 2. ) a sticky poisonous substance from tobacco that people who smoke cigarettes get in their lungs: low tar cigarettes tar tar 2… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Tarring and feathering — is a physical punishment, used to enforce formal justice in feudal Europe and informal justice in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance (compare Lynch law).… …   Wikipedia

• List of U.S. Marine Corps acronyms and expressions — This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps. Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or… …   Wikipedia