tart
/tɑɹt/ verb C2- To practice prostitution.
- To practice promiscuous sex.
- To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.
He/she/it tarts · Past tarted · Past participle tarted · -ing form tarting
Verb forms
- Base form
- tart
- He/she/it
- tarts
- Past
- tarted
- Past participle
- tarted
- -ing form
- tarting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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To eat with apple-tart.
Lynde says she once heard a minister confess that when he was a boy he stole a strawberry tart out of his aunt’s pantry and she never had any respect for that minister again.
However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
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