A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
A sailor; a swabby.
A naval officer's epaulet.
A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
A mop, especially on a ship.
A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.
A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
A file produced by such a program.
A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
Black tar, a form of heroin.
Coal tar.
A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
To besmirch.
To create a tar archive.
To coat with tar.