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tac-au-tac

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tac-au-tac /ˈtakəʊˌtak/

▶noun Fencing a parry combined with a riposte.

– origin early 20th cent.: Fr., lit. ‘clash for clash’, from imitative tac.

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