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tar noun- coffee US
Citizens’ band radio slang, from the colour rather than the consistency. • — Complete CB Slang Dictionary, p. 90, 1976 - — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 159, 1981
- crude, dark, gummy heroin, usually from Mexico US
- The tar, or goma, as the Mexicans called it, looked like brown window putty and smelled like vinegar. — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 35, 1992
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 113, 1996
- “His syringe and spoon and a half ounce of tar was under my lavatory.” — James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending, p. 99, 2006
- opium US, 1936
From the colour and consistency of raw opium. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 113, 1996
- crack cocaine and heroin mixed and smoked together UK
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 210, 2002
- rum TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- a sailor UK, 1676
Probably a shortening of obsolete “tarpaulin”. - A winking, digital message to the effect that New Britain plc expects every Jack and Jill tar to do their duty? — The Guardian, 1 October 2003
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