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[[File:Brer_Rabbit_and_the_Tar_Baby.jpg|thumb|Brer Rabbit gets stuck in the Tar-Baby. This illustration comes from the 1895 version of Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, illustrated by A.B. Frost.]]The '''Tar-Baby''' is a fictional character in the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881.

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and [[Turpentine (nonfiction)|turpentine]] used to entrap Br'er Rabbit.

The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes.

In modern usage, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional involvement in it.

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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Tar-Baby]]
* [[Tar-Baby 9000]]
* [[Turpentine]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

* [[Turpentine (nonfiction)]]

External links:

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar-Baby Tar-Baby] @ Wikipedia

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