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A Tarbaby is a beautiful tortoiseshell cat with golden eyes who loves to chirp and chortle. Though often sweet and affectionate, they are easily irritated and will often whine when they are displeased.
Tarbaby likes to pursue yarn in the early hours of the morning.
Tarbaby by happytortie February 3, 2010
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Word used to describe an African American, or person of color. Similar to nigger.
Person 1: “that guy is so black he’s a tarbaby”
Person 2: “yeah! Total tarbaby!”
Tarbaby by Unknown12345687 June 16, 2018
A reference used against the younger darker Caucasian male and females to tell them how different they are from the whiter ones.
"There is a tarbaby next door we should hang him", Said Cletus at the Klan meeting.
Tarbaby by Kansas city blast rope December 4, 2018
A TayBaby is a amazing girl. Likes male genitalia. Likes to fuck.
DAYUUUUUUM thats a taybaby.
Taybaby by RPAR October 20, 2010

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.
The issue of immigration has become a tar baby for president Gearge W. Bush.
tar baby by thalio May 23, 2006

tar baby 

a situation almost impossible to get out of; a problem virtually unsolvable;
His political advisers told him to stay away from the controversy,
that it was a no-win cause, a “tar baby.”
tar baby by Richard April 18, 2004
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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
Plate of Brown by Cheddar Craigson September 18, 2020
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