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Tarheel

Tarheel is the alternative form of Tar Heel.

Meaning of Tar Heel

Noun

Tar Heel (plural Tar Heels)

  1. (US, slang) Synonym of North Carolinian.
    • I'm a Tar Heel born
      I'm a Tar Heel bred
      And when I die
      I'm a Tar Heel dead.
  2. (US, slang) A person associated with or supportive of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    • Michael Jordan is one of many Tar Heel basketball standouts.

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Forms of Tarheel

pluralTarheels

Words formed from Tarheel

Questions about Tarheel

What is Tarheel the alternative form of?
Tarheel is the alternative form of Tar Heel.

Words near Tarheel in the dictionary

  1. targumizes
  2. targumizing
  3. targums
  4. tarhana
  5. tarhanas
  6. Tarheel
  7. Tarheeler
  8. Tarheelers
  9. Tarheels
  10. tarhonya
  11. tari

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tarheel (page history and authors); Tar Heel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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