Usually means: Delay or linger longer than expected.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tarry: Merriam-Webster
  3. tarry, tarry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tarry, tarry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tarry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tarry: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tarry, tarry: Wordnik
  8. tarry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tarry, tarry: Wiktionary
  10. tarry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tarry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tarry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tarry: Dictionary.com
  14. tarry (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tarry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tarry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tarry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tarry: Rhymezone
  19. Tarry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tarry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tarry: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tarry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tarry: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarry: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarry, tarry: A Word A Day
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tarry: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)

(Note: See tarried as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
verb:  (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
verb:  (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
verb:  (intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily.
verb:  (transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
noun:  A sojourn.
adjective:  Resembling tar.
adjective:  Covered with tar.
noun:  A surname.

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