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tacks up

vb. (en-third-person singulartack up)

Usage examples of "tacks up".

First he turns across the wind, then tacks up into it, and the boat suddenly shrieks like a banshee.

We skulked about in the banana-smelling darkness, examining the wall over the plank counter where Mother tacks up pictures she tears out of magazines.