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Jack
Tar

Jack Tar is naval slang meaning
sailors. Historians believe
that the name Jack Tar originated
in the seventeenth century
when sailors wore canvas breeches
that were often spotted with
tar from the waterproofing
done aboard ship. There is
a reference to Jack Tars in
William Congreve's Love
For Love (1695).
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