WordNet
n. a natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved
Wikipedia
"Tar Pit" is the first episode of the second season of the 1975 American television series Land of the Lost. Written by Margaret Armen and directed by Gordon Wiles, it first aired in the United States on September 6, 1975 on NBC.
A tar pit is a geological occurrence where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle, pit, or lake of asphalt.
Tarpit may also refer to:
- " Tar Pit", an episode of the 1974 series Land of the Lost
- Tar Pit (comics), a fictional supervillain in DC Comics
- Tarpit (networking), information security and anti-spam techniques in networking
- Tarpit Project, the difficulties in developing large software projects as in The Mythical Man Month
- Turing tarpit, a type of programming language
Usage examples of "tar pit".
He sat quietly now and tried to pull apart the visions into his past that his subconscious had belched up, like malodorous bubbles from a tar pit.
Bubbling tar grew deeper around them, as if they'd blundered into a tar pit.
He and Chiun followed her to a break in the foliage from which they could peer out over the tar pit.
Or now perhaps not a tar pit but a sea of bones or a grid, a wall of tessellated carbon or scabmatter the size of a city.
The lava had reached the edge of the water covering the tar pit, and a feather of steam boiled up.
She saw Kody hesitate, afraid to move, afraid she might also be pulled into the seething tar pit.
Terrel felt the intense heat of the conflagration at the same time as he smelt the acrid scent of the tar pit.
Now it was deep, and it sounded like something bubbling up from a tar pit.