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tach up

/ˌtæk ˈʌp/

tach up verb: to rev (up) a car's engine; to accelerate.

Verb

tach up (third-person singular simple present tachs up, present participle taching up, simple past and past participle tached up)

  1. To rev (up) a car's engine; to accelerate.
    • [...]and quickly, in an arc unexpectedly graceful, they had all turned outward, tached up, engaged, and like a time machine departing for the future, forever too soon for Zoyd, boomed away up the thin, cloudpressed lane.1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage, published 2000, page 55
    • Tito tached up and dropped into low, leaving a fragrant set of tracks a block long and a screech that could be heard halfway to Boulder Dam.2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 245

Forms of tach up

third-person singular presenttachs up
present participletaching up
past participletached up
pasttached up

Questions about tach up

What does tach up mean?
Tach up means to rev (up) a car's engine; to accelerate.
What part of speech is tach up?
Tach up is a verb.
How do you pronounce tach up?
Tach up is pronounced /ˌtæk ˈʌp/.
What is the past tense of tach up?
The past tense of tach up is tached up.

Words near tach up in the dictionary

  1. tacenda
  2. taces
  3. tacet
  4. Tacey
  5. tach
  6. tach up
  7. Tachai
  8. tachanka
  9. tachankas
  10. tachanun
  11. tacharanite

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