"on the tack" meaning in English

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        "Tacking."
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        "(nautical) Tacking."
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          "ref": "1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 152:",
          "text": "For they were always going on the tack; a dozen pairs of sympathetic eyes would follow the consciously heroic youth as he wandered down the veranda with a glass of orange juice in his hand; and they asked anxiously, ‘How goes it, Frankie?’",
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        "Without alcohol; teetotal."
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        "(slang) Without alcohol; teetotal."
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  "word": "on the tack"
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        "(slang) Without alcohol; teetotal."
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  "word": "on the tack"
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