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tar⋅pit

[tahr-pit]
–noun
seepage of natural tar or asphalt, esp. an accumulation that has acted as a natural trap into which animals have fallen and sunk and had their bones preserved.
Also, tar pit.


Origin:
1830–40; tar 1 + pit 1
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