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.
   • 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