tar baby meaning and definitiontar baby mean? Here you find 14 meanings of tar baby.
A dummy made of tar, which cannot be struck without getting oneself hopelessly stuck to it--from the story "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox" by Joe Harris, as told by his fictional narrator, Uncle Remus. Tar baby has become short hand for a situation better avoided than confronted.
a situation almost impossible to get out of; a problem virtually unsolvable;
A sticky mess. Something unable to get away from.Alternate: Similar to a Catch-22. Damned if you do and damned if you dont. A mistaken notion or misunderstanding that immediately produces indignation.
Tar baby is a synonym for nigger, except that it is only used in bigoted manners, whereas nigger can be a sign of respect, if the speaker is also African American. It comes from a children's story in which the dark skin and seeming ignorance (caused by a lack of schooling) of slaves were explained by the idea that black children were baptised in tar, which made them dark and dumb. see nigger
Now used as an insult to black people, the tar baby was originally a jet black baby doll (becaue it was made out of tar) used to trap Br'er Rabbit Rabbit in an American folk tale.Tar baby can also be a term used to describe a "sticky" situation.
describing a person who is really dark.
An african american baby, most likely very black.
A dummy made of tar, which cannot be struck without getting oneself hopelessly stuck to it--from the story "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox" by Joe Harris, as told by his fictional narrator, Uncle Remus. Tar baby has become short hand for a situation better avoided than confronted.
a situation almost impossible to get out of; a problem virtually unsolvable;
A sticky mess. Something unable to get away from.Alternate: Similar to a Catch-22. Damned if you do and damned if you dont. A mistaken notion or misunderstanding that immediately produces indignation.
Tar baby is a synonym for nigger, except that it is only used in bigoted manners, whereas nigger can be a sign of respect, if the speaker is also African American. It comes from a children's story in which the dark skin and seeming ignorance (caused by a lack of schooling) of slaves were explained by the idea that black children were baptised in tar, which made them dark and dumb. see nigger
Now used as an insult to black people, the tar baby was originally a jet black baby doll (becaue it was made out of tar) used to trap Br'er Rabbit Rabbit in an American folk tale.Tar baby can also be a term used to describe a "sticky" situation.
describing a person who is really dark.
An african american baby, most likely very black.
A really dark black chicks pigment
What a spill (i.e. former rig) hooker finds in her/his hair after rimming a BP contract shrimper. A relatively new phenomenon following the Deepwater Horizon "incident".
v. to pick a booger, wrap it in a turd and throw it at onlookers
Slang for a black mans meat stick. Looking like a bar covered in black tar. A Brothers Penis Bird Bone
The roof of a building, generally in a large city and usually flat rather than sloped. Used as a place to sunbathe or just to hang out in hot weather, particularly by hood folk.
A girl that has a bangin' booty, and a nice rack.
n. Someone that runs on the road as opposed to running on a soft surface like a track.
A slang word in the pornographic and fetish industry that is a synonym to "Cleveland Steamer", by definition, it is when someone of the same gender rubs feces on the head of a man's penis, hence the name "Tar" + "Bell", "bell" being the head of the penis since it is shaped like a bell and "tar" represented by the feces (similar to being tarred and feathered). The man will then ejaculate and mix in his semen with the feces.
a jovial way of saying Bartender! Done in a manner of how a drunk may say it! How a drunk says Bartender!
Bartending. Serving alcohol.