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spat tacks

spat tacks is the simple past and past participle of spit tacks.

Meaning of spit tacks

Verb

spit tacks (third-person singular simple present spits tacks, present participle spitting tacks, simple past and past participle spat tacks or spit tacks)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, slang) To be extremely angry.

Questions about spat tacks

What is spat tacks the simple past and past participle of?
Spat tacks is the simple past and past participle of spit tacks.

Words near spat tacks in the dictionary

  1. spat it out
  2. spat nails
  3. spat on
  4. spat out
  5. spat straight facts
  6. spat tacks
  7. spat the dummy
  8. spat up
  9. spatacsin
  10. spatangid
  11. spatangids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spat tacks (page history and authors); spit tacks (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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