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Definition of Ticktack

1. Noun. System of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks.

2. Verb. Make a sound like a clock or a timer. "The grandfather clock beat midnight"

Definition of Ticktack

1. n. A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

2. adv. With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.

Definition of Ticktack

1. Interjection. (dated form of tick tock) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ticktack

1. to ticktock [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: ticktock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ticktack

tickling ticklingly ticklings ticklish ticklishly ticklishness ticklishnesses tickly tickmark tickmarks

ticks ticks off tickseed sunflower tickseeds ticktack (current term) ticktacked ticktacking ticktacks ticktacktoe ticktacktoes

ticktacktoo ticktock ticktocked ticktocking ticktocks tickweed ticky ticky-box ticky-boxes

Literary usage of Ticktack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hygienic Physiology: With Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks by Joel Dorman Steele (1901)
"ticktack I ticktack I go the wheels of thought; our will can not stop them, they can not stop themselves; sleep can not stop them; madness only makes them ..."

2. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1893)
"... village or passing a single house, Tar into the night, never Tails to hear the ticktack, ticktack that announces the ..."

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