tarnoun [ U ]
uk/tɑːr/us/tɑːr/a black substance, sticky when hot, used especially for making roads
one of the poisonous substances found in tobacco:
a low tar cigarette
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Road surfaces & features
- asphalt
- bitumen
- black spot
- blind spot
- camber
- gravelled
- gritter
- hairpin bend
- kerb
- kerbside
- lay-by
- ramp
- rest area
- rest stop
- resurface
- roadside
- rumble strip
- traffic calming
- tramlines
- weighbridge
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Building materials
Tobacco & smoking
Idiom(s)
beat/knock/whale the tar out of sb
tarverb [ T ]
uk/tɑːr/us/tɑːr/-rr-to put tar on a surface
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Road surfaces & features
- asphalt
- bitumen
- black spot
- blind spot
- camber
- gravelled
- gritter
- hairpin bend
- kerb
- kerbside
- lay-by
- ramp
- rest area
- rest stop
- resurface
- roadside
- rumble strip
- traffic calming
- tramlines
- weighbridge
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Idiom(s)
tar sb with the same brush
tar and feather sb