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Tar Heel State

Tar Heel State proper noun: official nickname for North Carolina: a state of the United States.

Proper noun

the Tar Heel State

  1. Official nickname for North Carolina: a state of the United States.

Words formed from Tar Heel State

Questions about Tar Heel State

What does Tar Heel State mean?
Tar Heel State means official nickname for North Carolina: a state of the United States.
What part of speech is Tar Heel State?
Tar Heel State is a proper noun.

Words near Tar Heel State in the dictionary

  1. tar baby
  2. tar boil
  3. tar boils
  4. tar derby
  5. Tar Heel
  6. Tar Heel State
  7. Tar Heel Stater
  8. Tar Heels
  9. tar out
  10. tar paper
  11. tar papers

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