"tach up" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˌtæk ˈʌp/ Forms: tachs up [present, singular, third-person], taching up [participle, present], tached up [participle, past], tached up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|tach<tachs> up}} tach up (third-person singular simple present tachs up, present participle taching up, simple past and past participle tached up)
  1. To rev (up) a car's engine; to accelerate.
    Sense id: en-tach_up-en-verb-ZEYlOkp5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

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          "ref": "1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage, published 2000, page 55",
          "text": "[...]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.",
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          "ref": "2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 245",
          "text": "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.",
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