TACK (UP) Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

tack (up)

verb

Definition of tack (up)

as in to nail

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Only this past week, Charles took a swig and decided the master brewers, Tim and Shaun Wilson at East Rock, had nailed it.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
The gambrel-roof’s shingles were pegged into roof beams rather than nailed, and the lath that held its plaster walls together was woven in place rather than nailed, according to an architectural survey of the county.

— Mark Price July 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026

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To celebrate, the president wants to offer free admissions that day to the country’s national parks, a self-serving gesture, no doubt, but one that is no surprise for a man who spent much of his adult life plastering his name on the sides of buildings, airplanes and casino hotels.

— Leonard Greene, Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2025
In one scene, Gracie Abrams texts Taylor a picture of the singer plastered on the side of a hotel in Indianapolis.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2025

Definition of plaster

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The law was constructed for a very different media marketplace in which broadcast TV distribution was the only game in town.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 July 2026
The work is invisible because nobody is paying for it, and the people doing it have no reason to broadcast a decade of unpaid effort with no outcome attached yet.

— Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

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