the tar out of
the tar out of adverb: used as an intensifier between a verb and its object: thoroughly, with vigour, to an intense degree.
Adverb
the tar out of (not comparable)
- Used as an intensifier between a verb and its object: thoroughly, with vigour, to an intense degree.
- It had been common gossip along the wharves at home that young Edwards had grown able to lick the tar out of Yerner.1930, Captain Dingle, “Treasure!” (chapter 9), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 76
- Synonyms:
- the stuffing out of, seven bells out of, seven hells out of, the bejeebers out of, the bejesus out of, the crap out of, the daylight out of, the daylights out of, the devil out of, the dickens out of
Synonyms of the tar out of
- the stuffing out of
- seven bells out of
- seven hells out of
- the bejeebers out of
- the bejesus out of
- the crap out of
- the daylight out of
- the daylights out of
- the devil out of
- the dickens out of
18 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- the flying fuck out of
- the fuck out of
- the fuckola out of
- the heck out of
- the hell out of
- the life out of
- the living crap out of
- the living daylights out of
- the living shit out of
- the pantaloons off
- the pants off
- the pants off of
- the piss out of
- the poop out of
- the shit out of
- the snot out of
- the socks off
- the stuffings out of
Questions about the tar out of
- What does the tar out of mean?
- The tar out of means used as an intensifier between a verb and its object: thoroughly, with vigour, to an intense degree.
- What part of speech is the tar out of?
- The tar out of is an adverb.
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