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   tar baby

   noun

   • 1. a difficult problem that is only aggravated by attempts to solve it: informal "disposal of nuclear waste was a problem whose solution was endlessly delayed, a tar baby no one wanted anything to do with"
   • 2. a contemptuous term for a black person. offensive US

   Word Origin with allusion to the doll smeared with tar as a trap for Brer Rabbit, in J. C. Harris's Uncle Remus.

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