tackhead

tackhead

slang A coarse, unrefined, tacky person. I was so afraid that she would think my family was a bunch of tackheads when she met them for the first time. Just because I don't care for all that highfalutin junk you read doesn't make me some kind of tackhead!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tackhead

n. an overdressed male. (One who looks tacky.) Gary is sort of a tackhead when it comes to clothing.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • appear to
  • a change of heart
  • a mystery to (one)
  • a tough cookie
  • a tough customer/cookie
  • a shoulder to cry on
  • a turn of phrase
  • able to do
  • able to do it
  • a piece/slice of the action
References in periodicals archive
He later formed Tackhead before embarking on his Little Axe journey.
ALAN NICHOL brings you the latest news on the roots music scene in the region
From there he worked closely with Adrian Sherwood on many of projects for the On-U Sound label, as well as spearheading the band Tackhead and working with Living Colour.
I want to make a hit with a Liverpool street musician
UK DUB master Adrian Sherwood's label is 30 this year, so what better way to celebrate than with two of its most revered acts, Tackhead and Mark Stewart and the Maffia.
The Tackhead sound is an astonishing blend of blistering funk, enhanced by Sherwood's effects and samples.
On-U Sounds 30th Birthday Bash, [...]; live reviews
Yn yr 80au roedd Sherwood yn arloesi gyda soundsystem Tackhead a'i waith hefo artistiaid fel Dub Syndicate ac African Headcharge.
Dydi parch yn unig ddim yn talu'r biliau
[1] Timberland Boot Company Tackhead Winter 8" classic, updated boot, $325, timberlandbootcompany.com or Barney's Co-op
Boots for the elements
Some of the results are fairly predictable: "Karma-Cola," by Adrian Sherwood and Doug Wimbish, is simultaneously bluesy and dubby, just as one would expect from the masterminds behind On-U Sound and Tackhead, respectively; Mapstation's "Watching Paik's Video Buddha" is unusually arrhythmic but otherwise typically spacy; Robert Henke, surprise surprise, uses Buddha Machine content to build rich layers of slowly throbbing drone.
Jukebox Buddha
Meanwhile, Scots funkster Jesse Rae hits the Cafe Royal in Edinburgh on Thursday, with Skip MacDonald of Tackhead and Steve Collazo of Odyssey.
Liam brings the wife
In the studio the DJ's records were replaced by the in-house Sugar Hill band, a funky tight outfit wich would later form the bones of Tackhead.
Dance CDs
Described as an interbreeding of Rush and Radiohead, crossed with U2 crossed with The Police, with an insertion of Tackhead, XTC and King Crimson, the band recorded their four-track EP at Newcastle's Cluny Studios.
the locals; The North East local music scene jazz, blues and roots/the locals