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tar and feather
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(jargon)tar and feather - (A sick contrivance from the Unix tar command and the Ku Klux Klan torture method) To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with tar (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result. The latter action is dubbed "feathering" (purely for contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an aeroplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily.


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I first heard the term from fellow conservatives around the time of Dan Rather's tarring and feathering.
REPUBLICAN MSM NOT AN OXYMORON by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The truth is that we humans have a propensity to make titans of ordinary men and women and then comes the equal and opposite reaction of tarring and feathering great man or woman.
Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity by William, Xavier / Reviewer's Bookwatch
Do these readers know any place on this globe which is a better place to live, or where it is safer to advocate tarring and feathering government officials?
EDITORIAL CAREFUL WHO WE CAST by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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