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hard tack

hard tack is the alternative form of hardtack.

Meaning of hardtack

Noun

hardtack (countable and uncountable, plural hardtacks)

  1. A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
    • Meronym: reefer's nut

Forms of hard tack

pluralhard tacks

Questions about hard tack

What is hard tack the alternative form of?
Hard tack is the alternative form of hardtack.

Words near hard tack in the dictionary

  1. hard stop
  2. hard stops
  3. hard swap
  4. hard swearing
  5. HARD syndrome
  6. hard tack
  7. hard tacks
  8. hard tech
  9. hard telling, not knowing
  10. hard tick
  11. hard ticks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard tack (page history and authors); hardtack (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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