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tarball n.
[very common; prob. based on the "tar
baby" in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the
Unix tar(1) utility, containing myriad related files. "Here, I'll
just ftp you a tarball of the whole project." Tarballs have been
the standard way to ship around source-code distributions since the
mid-1980s; in retrospect it seems odd that this term did not enter
common usage until the late 1990s.
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