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spit tacks

spit tacks verb: to be extremely angry.

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.

Synonyms of spit tacks

Forms of spit tacks

third-person singular presentspits tacks
present participlespitting tacks
past participlespat tacks
pastspat tacks
past participlespit tacks
pastspit tacks

Questions about spit tacks

What does spit tacks mean?
Spit tacks means to be extremely angry.
What part of speech is spit tacks?
Spit tacks is a verb.
What is the past tense of spit tacks?
The past tense of spit tacks is spat tacks.

Words near spit tacks in the dictionary

  1. spit roasting
  2. spit roasts
  3. spit shine
  4. spit shines
  5. spit straight facts
  6. spit tacks
  7. spit take
  8. spit takes
  9. spit the dummy
  10. spit up
  11. spit valve

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