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on the tack

adj

Definitions

  1. Tacking.

  2. Without alcohol

    Without alcohol; teetotal.

    • For they were always going on the tack; a dozen pairs of sympathetic eyes would follow the consciously heroic youth as he wandered down the veranda with a glass of orange juice in his hand; and they asked anxiously, ‘How goes it, Frankie?’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for on the tack. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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