tach up
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tach up (third-person singular simple present tachs up, present participle taching up, simple past and past participle tached up)
- To rev (up) a car's engine; to accelerate.
- 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage, published 2000, page 55:
- [...]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.
- 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 245:
- Tito tached up and dropped into low, leaving a fragrant set of tracks a block long and a screech that could be heard halfway to Boulder Dam.