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In old English Law, tac was a customary payment made by a tenant.
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Tic-tac is a method of signalling in use on racecourses. Its chief object is to communicate the betting movements in Tattersall's to book-makers in the smaller rings and on the course itself when outside betting is permitted.
The tic-tac is operated in a triangular manner, the betting movements in Tattersall's being communicated by one of the operators to a second stationed on the grandstand, who passes on the message to a third person, who in turn, communicates the information to the bookmaker for whom he works.
The signals are made by touching various parts of the head, arms and body, and although more or less universally used, are varied at times to deceive outsiders by introducing what is colloquially called the 'twist', i.e. the signs are made the reverse way and the numbers assigned to horses on the race cards are reversed or otherwise altered.
Customarily the signs used run from the right shoulder, over to the left shoulder, and up either arm, a few of them being as follows: One, right shoulder touched with right hand; two, right ear with right hand; three, right side top of head with right hand; six, left shoulder with left hand; ten, both hands placed together; 7-to-4 against, tips of left hand fingers, with right hand; 5-to-2 against, breast pocket with right hand.
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TAC is an abbreviation for Tactical Air Command
TAC is an abbreviation for Terminal Access Controller
TAC is an abbreviation for Tactical Air Control
TAC is an abbreviation for Technical Activities Committee
TAC is an abbreviation for Technology Applications Centre
TAC is an abbreviation for The Athletic Congress
TAC is an abbreviation for Total Accumulated Cycle
TAC is an abbreviation for Trades Advisory Council
TAC is an abbreviation for Technical and Agricultural College
TAC is an abbreviation for Telecommunications Advisory Committee
TAC is an abbreviation for Tobacco Advisory Committee
TAC is an abbreviation for Total Allowable Catches
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TAC D & E is an abbreviation for Tactical Development and Evaluation
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TAC-IROCS is an abbreviation for Tactical Intrusion Resistant Optical Fiber Communications System
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TAC/TASS is an abbreviation for Tactical Towed Array Sonar Program
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Sea-Tac is a CDP in King County, Washington, USA.
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Tay Tac is a Tai language spoken in Vietnam.
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Crystal TAC is slang for phencyclidine.
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Tic-tac is British slang for a signal or sign.
Tic-tac is London Cockney rhyming slang for fact.
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