Tacks

"Tacks" frowned, pushed back his chair and stood up.

Cap'n Dan's Daughter Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"Tacks," the young man with whom Captain Dan had exchanged repartee in the Rathskeller of the Palatine Hotel.

Cap'n Dan's Daughter Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

He had disliked the young man "Tacks" when he met him in the Rathskeller.

Cap'n Dan's Daughter Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But it ain't any queerer than 'Tacks'; that's what he called

Cap'n Dan's Daughter Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Now that "Tacks" had become Mr. Percy Hungerford, Aunt Lavinia's cousin and his own distant relative, the dislike was only partially abated.

Cap'n Dan's Daughter Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Paula made a practice of calling them the pair of “Brass Tacks.”

CHAPTER XX 2010

Tacks on R0@d... it's the cycling hat-trick like in Canadian Golf

Riding Dirty, Coming Clean: All You Haters Hear My Confession BikeSnobNYC 2010

Tacks were strewn on a section of the race, bursting hundreds of tyres.

This Just In: BSNYC Slaycation Announcement! (and Friday Fun Qiuz) BikeSnobNYC 2009

Tacks in my shoes keep on stickin 'me, in my heels

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 2009

CHETRY: Tacks that drop out from underneath and the electrified door handles.

CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2009 2009