tacker
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that tacks
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slang a young person; child
Example Sentences
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Nationwide, the movie hit the top of the charts, according to reputable revenue tacker Box Office Mojo.
From BBC
Paul Connolly will be in the chair shortly, but until then check out this little tacker in action:
From The Guardian
If it wasn’t for me I don’t know what in reason you little tackers would grow up to be.
From Project Gutenberg
Good-day, my lord; surely it was you that my Lady Tawny brought to see me years agone, when you was but a little tacker.
From Project Gutenberg
And Osceolo takin’ himself and his pranks, with his tribe, clear beyond the Mississippi; an’ me an’ ma lived through watchin’ them little tackers of Kit’s—oh, hum!
From Project Gutenberg
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