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down tacks

down tacks is the plural of down tack.

Meaning of down tack

Noun

down tack (plural down tacks)

  1. The IPA diacritic of primary articulation: ⟨˕⟩, used to denote a lowered phone; for vowels, the diacritic denotes a slightly more open utterance; for consonants, it moves the manner of articulation one step forward in this chain: nasal → plosive → fricative → approximant → trill → tap, flap → lateral fricative → lateral approximant → lateral flap.

Questions about down tacks

What is down tacks the plural of?
Down tacks is the plural of down tack.

Words near down tacks in the dictionary

  1. down style
  2. Down syndrome
  3. Down syndrome regression disorder
  4. Down syndromed
  5. down tack
  6. down tacks
  7. down the banks
  8. down the cludgie
  9. down the drain
  10. down the gurgler
  11. down the hatch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: down tacks (page history and authors); down tack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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