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tarmacking

tarmacking is the present participle and gerund of tarmac.

Meaning of tarmac

Verb

tarmac (third-person singular simple present tarmacs, present participle tarmacking or tarmacing or tarmaccing, simple past and past participle tarmacked or tarmaced or tarmacced)

  1. (Canada, UK) To pave with tarmacadam or a similar material.
    • To your left is a green lane, partly tarmacked with chippings, which leads up to a little car-parking area.2008, Valerie Belsey, Exploring Green Lanes in North and North-West Devon, →ISBN, page 108
  2. To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance.
    • "It is not unusual these days for the time spent tarmacking to exceed the time spent in the air, " said Senator John Danforth, R-Mo.1989, Donald F. Wood, James C. Johnson, Contemporary Transportation, →ISBN, page 213

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Questions about tarmacking

What is tarmacking the present participle and gerund of?
Tarmacking is the present participle and gerund of tarmac.

Words near tarmacking in the dictionary

  1. tarmacced
  2. tarmaccing
  3. tarmaced
  4. tarmacing
  5. tarmacked
  6. tarmacking
  7. tarmacky
  8. tarmacs
  9. Tarman
  10. Tarmans
  11. tarms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarmacking (page history and authors); tarmac (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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