tar out

verb

tar out

verb

1

Dated, Slang To punish; to pay back or take revenge on.

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.1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga:

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