Tar pit (disambiguation)

Tar pit (disambiguation)

A tar pit is a geological occurrence where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle, pit, or lake of asphalt.

Tarpit may also refer to:

* Tar Pit (comics), a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics
* Tarpit (networking), information security and anti-spam techniques in networking
* Tarpit Project, the difficulties in developing large software projects as in The Mythical Man Month
* Tarpit, an unmanageable method of revision control using the Tar (file format)
* Turing tarpit, a type of programming language


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