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.
by jaatee August 7, 2006
Get the Tar Babymug. A racist slur used against black people.
Synonym : Nigger, Porch Monkey, Moon Cricket, Jiggaboo and few others
Synonym : Nigger, Porch Monkey, Moon Cricket, Jiggaboo and few others
by Shiine-1 November 24, 2021
Get the Tar Babymug. A black, sticky turd, typically small and taking an unusual amount of effort to excrete, which sticks to the toilet bowl and resists flushing.
Tom was on toilet for almost an hour and all he had to show for it was one nasty tar baby when he realized there was no toilet brush in the bathroom.
by @WhoaBigBill April 27, 2021
Get the Tar Babymug. by Derian The Great November 18, 2004
Get the Tar Babymug. Someone who looks like they're half alive or too high to even function, they're sunken in and skinny.
by lightyear09 June 30, 2010
Get the Tar Babymug. 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.
Tar baby has become short hand for a situation better avoided than confronted.
by thalio May 23, 2006
Get the tar babymug. His political advisers told him to stay away from the controversy,
that it was a no-win cause, a “tar baby.”
that it was a no-win cause, a “tar baby.”
by Richard April 18, 2004
Get the tar babymug.