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In modern usage, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional involvement in it.
In modern usage, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional involvement in it.


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== In the News ==


* [[Turpentine (nonfiction)]]
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


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File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000_small.png|[[Tar-Baby 9000]] is the best known and most computationally demonic Tar Baby of modern time. In this 1895 photograph, [[Tar-Baby 9000]] gathers data from Brer Rabbit.
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* [[Tar-Baby]]
* [[Tar-Baby]]
* [[Tar-Baby 9000]]
* [[Tar-Baby 9000]]
* [[Turpentine]]
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
* [[Turpentine (nonfiction)]]


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Latest revision as of 20:46, 24 January 2017

Brer Rabbit gets stuck in the Tar-Baby. This illustration comes from the 1895 version of Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, illustrated by A.B. Frost.

The Tar-Baby is a fictional character in the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881.

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit.

The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes.

In modern usage, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional involvement in it.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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