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tacking about

tacking about is the present participle and gerund of tack about.

Meaning of tack about

Verb

tack about (third-person singular simple present tacks about, present participle tacking about, simple past and past participle tacked about)

  1. To tack; to go about

Questions about tacking about

What is tacking about the present participle and gerund of?
Tacking about is the present participle and gerund of tack about.

Words near tacking about in the dictionary

  1. tackifying
  2. tackily
  3. tackiness
  4. tackinesses
  5. tacking
  6. tacking about
  7. tacking boom
  8. tacking down
  9. tacking together
  10. tacking up
  11. tackings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tacking about (page history and authors); tack about (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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