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tarbaby

n. 1 A difficult or "sticky" situation, especially one where peoples' attempts to make it better only make it worse 2 (context pejorative ethnic slur English) A black person

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There was a picture of the tarbaby sitting in the middle of the road, looking like one of those old-time Negro minstrels with the blackface and great white eyes.