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"form": "tarring and feathering",
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"text": "1855 — George A. Smith, Journal of Discourses, Volume 3 \"Preaching the Gospel\"\n\"O,\" say they, \"if you talk with a Mormon Elder, you are sure to get worsted; tar and feather them, mob them, and stone them out of the country, for if you listen to them, you will be deceived.\""
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"ref": "1884, Mark Twain, chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
"text": "...they'd be along pretty soon and give me 'bout half an hour's start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me they'd tar and feather me and ride me on a rail, sure. I didn't wait for no breakfast—I warn't hungry.",
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"To cover (a person) in sticky tar, then cover in feathers which stick to the tar; an archaic means of humiliating a person."
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"(transitive) To cover (a person) in sticky tar, then cover in feathers which stick to the tar; an archaic means of humiliating a person."
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