tack, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tack v.

also tackle

to join in marriage.

1695		Congreve Love for Love IV i: I’m likely to be finely fobbed, if I have got anger here upon your account, and you are tacked about already.
1697		Cibber Womans Wit IV i: How, Squire! to tack you together! [...] Who is it, you have a Mind to marry?
1709		Cibber Rival Fools V i: I have already sent my Niece, to prepare herself to marry him [...] we’ll call up Doctor Double-Chin as we go; whip up the Ceremony, and tack ’em together like a new pair of Stockings.
1747		Life and Character of Moll King 5: They came to the Fleet, and were tack’d together by one of the Couple-Beggars.
1754		Foote Knights in Works (1799) I 77: I [...] passed myself upon her for him, and we were tacked together.
1777		Garrick Country Girl I i: And so then you make but one trouble of it; and are both to be tack’d together the same day?
1797		M. Leeson Memoirs (1995) III 168: We were tacked together that very night.
1859		‘George Eliot’ Adam Bede (1873) 82: I’d never marry a man as had got no brains; for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a-laughing at?
1876		C. Hindley Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 47: I can assure you that my wife was as nice a woman as ever a man need to be tacked to.
1895		W.Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 212: And well he might go dotty with such a woman as ’er tacked on to him for life!

tack up (v.) [SE tack up, to nail up, to roughly sew up a garment]

1. (US prison) to approach someone in a confrontational manner.

2000

Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Tack Up: Confrontational order, as in sticking someone against a wall.