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taching up

taching up is the present participle and gerund of tach up.

Meaning of tach up

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

Questions about taching up

What is taching up the present participle and gerund of?
Taching up is the present participle and gerund of tach up.

Words near taching up in the dictionary

  1. tachina flies
  2. tachina fly
  3. tachinae
  4. tachinas
  5. Taching
  6. taching up
  7. tachinid
  8. tachinids
  9. tachinomiya
  10. tachinomiyas
  11. tachiol

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