"tarball" meaning in English

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          "text": "1969, Hearings By United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary\nAll of us who have been to the beaches this year have encountered tarballs that stick to our feet and mess up our rugs."
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        "A file that is an archive of several other files, created using the Unix tar utility."
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        "(computing) A file that is an archive of several other files, created using the Unix tar utility."
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        "(transitive, computing) To archive into a tarball."
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