tar out

English

Verb

tar out (third-person singular simple present tars out, present participle tarring out, simple past and past participle tarred out)

  1. (transitive, slang, dated) To punish; to pay back or take revenge on.
    Synonyms: castigate, penalize; get back at, retaliate; see also Thesaurus:punish, Thesaurus:avenge
    • 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.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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