Definition of "tar-and-feather" []

• To cover a person in sticky tar, then covered in feathers which stick to the tar. An archaic means of humiliating a person. (verb)

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• "That way the righteously angry mobs in Boston could tar-and-feather her and we would finally be rid of this woman who has brought so much misery to the GOP and America."
• "Stop lecturing the Middle East about free speech when the tar-and-feather political lynch mobs tear apart our media."
• "I was plastered with muck like a tar-and-feather merchant, but I still had my gun, and then I must have trod on a loose stone, for I pitched headlong, and went rolling and bumping down the slope, hit a rock, and finished up winded and battered in a burn, trying frantically to scramble up, and slithering on the slimy gravel underfoot."