TACK ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tack on mean? 

• TACK ON (verb)
  The verb TACK ON has 1 sense:

1. fix to; attach

  Familiarity information: TACK ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TACK ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fix to; attach

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

append; hang on; tack; tack on; tag on

Context example:

append a charm to the necklace

Hypernyms (to "tack on" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tack on"):

subjoin (add to the end)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

 Context examples 

But you must come up and tack on my patterns all the same.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)