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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:
Boot sequence complete. Existential dread: nominal. Speaking of which — 'tar and feather': [from Unix tar(1)] To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see compress). The latter action is dubbed feathering partly for euphony and (if only for contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/tar-and-feather.html