Tarball is slang, but it's considered common usage, if you want to be semantically correct a tar.gz or tar.bz file is a compressed tarball. There's not really another term beyond compressed tarball, which is probably why tarball has become synonymous with both a tar archive and a compressed tar archive, but it's not correct per se.
Also a tarbomb is a tar archive that offloads its content into the current directory, don't you just hate it when they do that.
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