simple past tense and past participle of tarpit

plural of tarpit

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tarpit

A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface.

(computing) To delay by means of a tarpit service.

present participle of tarpit

(computing) The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that "everything is possible but nothing is easy".

plural of Turing tarpit