Tack

Tack may refer to:

People

Given name or nickname

• Tacks Latimer (1875–1936), American baseball catcher
• Tacks Neuer (1877–1966), American baseball pitcher
• Tack Wilson (born 1955), American baseball outfielder
• Wong Tack (born 1959), Malaysian politician
• Irwin "Tack" Kuntz (fl. 1982–present), American pharmaceutical chemist

Surname

• François Tack (c. 1650–1686), Dutch East India Company officer
• Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949), American painter
• Anita Tack (born 1951), German politician of the Left Party
• Erik Tack (born 1958), Belgian politician
• Kerstin Tack (born 1968), German politician of the Social Democratic Party

Implements, and creative or constructive tasks and materials

• Tack (sewing) (also baste or pin), quick, temporary stitching intended to be removed
• Blu Tack, a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive used for attaching paper items to walls
• Horse tack, equipment used to allow riding or driving of horses and some other riding animals
• Thumbtack or drawing pin, a short nail or pin easily placed and removed by hand
• Shoe tack, a type of cut nail, used in upholstery, shoe making and saddle manufacture
• Tack weld, a specific short and often temporary type of weld
• Upholstery tack or furniture tack, a type of short nail more robust and resistant than the drawing pin.

Sailing

• A tack as a part of the tacking maneuver; in which a sailing boat turns its bow through the wind
• Tack (sailing), the lower corner of a sail's leading edge
• Tack (square sail), a type of rigging unique to square sails

Other uses

• Hardtack, a hard cracker or biscuit used for food on sea voyages and by soldiers during the American Civil War.
• Scottish lease, as held by a tacksman
• Tack, another name for stickiness in chemistry
• The Tack, a parliamentary maneuver supported by Tackers in 1704
• The grand tack hypothesis on the origin of the structure of the Solar System
• "TACK", a proposed archaeal taxon, presumably a sister taxon of hypothetical "Asgard" taxon within the "Proteoarchaeota" kingdom; now renamed to Thermoproteati
• TACK, a proposed network security standard co-created by Moxie Marlinspike
• Any of the four symbols
  • right tack ${\displaystyle \vdash }$
  • down tack ${\displaystyle \top }$
  • up tack ${\displaystyle \bot }$
  • left tack ${\displaystyle \dashv }$

See also

• TAC (disambiguation)
• Tacking (disambiguation)
• Tact (disambiguation)
• Tak (disambiguation)