tach
/tæk/
tach is the clipping of tachometer.
Meaning of tachometer
Noun
tachometer (plural tachometers)
- A device for measuring the revolutions per minute (RPMs) of a revolving shaft, as with the driveshaft of an automobile.
- A device for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of blood, a river, a machine, etc.
Noun (1)
IPA/tæt͡ʃ/
tach (plural taches)
- A hat.
- I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 161
Noun (2)
tach (uncountable)
- Tachycardia.
- wide-complex tach
- V-tach
Forms of tach
| plural | tachs |
|---|---|
| plural | taches |
Origin of tach
Clipping of tachometer.
Backslang for hat (with /tʃ/ substituted for the /h/).
Words formed from tach
Words that rhyme with tach
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- plaque
- whack
- slack
- Cadillac
- swack
- thwack
- pac
- shack
- bivouac
- cack
- clack
- gack
- lack
- smack
- unpack
- wrack
- aback
- flak
- hark back
- mack
- claque
- flack
- knack
- quack
- shellac
- snack
- yak
- Aach
- ack
- gak
- mac
- Meshach
- multitrack
- plack
- snacc
- wack
- akh
- alack
- awrack
- brach
- cac
- Cayman Brac
- Chiraq
- cook back
- craic
- diclofenac
- dictionary attack
- dime back
Questions about tach
- What does tach mean?
- Tach means a hat.
- What is tach the clipping of?
- Tach is the clipping of tachometer.
- What part of speech is tach?
- Tach is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tach?
- Tach is pronounced /tæk/.
- What is the plural of tach?
- The plural of tach is tachs.
Words near tach in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tach (page history and authors); tachometer (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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