tach up

present singular third person tachs up · participle present taching up · participle past tached up · past tached up

1. To rev (up) a car's engine; to accelerate.

   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.

   2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 245

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   [...]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.

   1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage, published 2000, page 55