tar

IPA: tˈɑr

(usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
Coal tar.
(uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
(slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
(uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.
(computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
(computing) A file produced by such a program.
A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
A village in Hungary.
(sometimes with the) Initialism of Tibet Autonomous Region, an administrative region of China. [An autonomous region of China, located on the Tibetan Plateau and part of Tibet, the home to the Tibetan people]

Examples of "tar" in Sentences

The term "tar baby" is widely regarded as a racial slur.
Some people consider the term "tar baby" to be a racial epithet.
This is not the first time a member of Congress has come under fire for using the term "tar baby."
So if someone asked me whether the use of the term tar baby, in isolation, signified a racist mentality, I really would have to demur.
I have also always known the term tar baby to be racist, and unlike Poilievre I had the opposite knowledge of the term to only be a racist one.
Acne artificialis is a term applied to an acne or acne-like eruption produced by the ingestion of certain drugs, as the bromides and iodides, and by the external use of tar; this is also called _tar acne_.
Tweet Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is taking flak this week for his use of the term "tar baby" while addressing a group of Iowa Republicans on July 29 in a reference to Boston's troubled Big Dig highway project.
I have never used the term tar baby, have now placed it on my official “do not use” list along with all sorts of other terms, and generally try to be very sensitive to how slurs can figuratively cut and bleed even when used unintentionally.
Except that Davis Kerry really, really, really should have known, given that almost exactly two years ago to the day, Tony Snow made his grand entrance as White House Press Hack by using the term tar baby not once, but twice, to a resulting shitstorm.