A fork of Rural Dictionary
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.
Talking about un-wed teen pregnancy is a real tar baby
A racist slur used against black people.
Synonym : Nigger, Porch Monkey, Moon Cricket, Jiggaboo and few others
That Tar Baby stole my bike! I should call the police!
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.
A male/female that's skin color resembles tar.
Damn if that ain't a "tar baby" I don't know what is.
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.
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.”