1. tarpit - Noun
2. tarpit - Verb
A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.
(computing) A service that purposely delays incoming connections in order to reduce the effectiveness of spamming and similar techniques.
tarpit (third-person singular simple present tarpits, present participle tarpitting, simple past and past participle tarpitted)
(computing) To delay by means of a tarpit service.
Esoteric programming terms Turing tarpit main A Turing tarpit is a Turing-complete programming language in which any computable function could theoretically be written, but in which it is impractically difficult to do so. Source: Internet