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TARPaulin Parachute 

A specific type of golden parachute which refers to executives who receive a disproportionately large reward, bonus or bailout despite being painfully incompetent at their job to tragic ends and use said reward in irresponsible ways.

This is most accurately directed at executives in the finance industry who received money from the TARP act intended to save the economy and, instead, used it irresponsibly.

In parts of the US, pronounced "tar-POLE-ee-in bailout."
Man, can you believe those fuckers at Citibank? Got a TARPaulin parachute and pissed it away on interior decorating, hookers and blow. Get the pitchforks and torches, I feel an old-school populist rage coming on.

Led Tarpaulin 

A generic term for a rock & roll tribute band that uses a semi-clever name to evoke the famous artist or band it covers, as, for example, the term itself evokes Led Zeppelin (covers, tarpaulin, get it?) See, e.g., By Jovi, Petty Cash, Proxy Music.
Saturday night we went to The Cave and saw that Led Tarpaulin outfit "Springsboomer" -- man, those guys can really play Bruce's stuff from the 70s and 80s!
Led Tarpaulin by FitofPeak2 December 10, 2024

Tardaliny 

something small and cute but bad.
my small black and blonde pomchi. she is very tardaliny.
Tardaliny by tardaliny August 19, 2009
v. to pick a booger, wrap it in a turd and throw it at onlookers
Why yo stank ass mama be tarballin folks that be passin by her crib all the time? Dat shit be stank ass nasty nigga foo & it bet not git all up on my rims dawg or I be gittin scrate ignant!

carpaulin 

He bought a carpaulin for his brand-new Prius.
carpaulin by uttam maharjan December 23, 2010

Tampalin 

Portmanteau of terminology from baseball, of pitchers and catchers, to describe someone who is both a giver and a receiver of homesexual anal sex.
Tom Breen is such a fucking tampalin.
Tampalin by John Mckinley May 30, 2018