tar out

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tar out

verb tars out · tarring out · tarred out

dated, slang, transitive To punish; to pay back or take revenge on. 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.
Similar: castigate, penalize, get back at, retaliate, amerce, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's guts for garters, have someone's head

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@misc{tar_out_2026,
  title = {tar out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tar%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}