tick-tack
tick-tack is the alternative form of tick tack.
tick-tack is the alternative form of tic-tac.
Meaning of tick tack
Noun
tick tack (countable and uncountable, plural tick tacks)
- The sound of repeated tapping, knocking, or clicking.
- But come to the clock, Mary. Remember, our lives are short, and they contain only a certain number of "tick tacks;" we cannot, therefore, afford to waste them.1870, Charles Bilton, “The household friend”, in The Class and Standard Series of Reading Books, Book IV, Special lessons for girls, page 199
- A device used to tap on a window or door from a distance.
- I got me a hammer and nails with the heavy lead sinker offen my fishnet, and it wasn't long before the finest tick-tack you ever saw was working against the Spiegelnails' parlor window, with me in a lilac-bush operating the string that kept the weight a-swinging.1907, Nelson Lloyd, “The last ghost in Harmony”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume 41
Meaning of tic-tac
Noun
tic-tac (uncountable)
- A system of sign language used by bookmakers at racecourses to communicate odds and bets; an associated group of words for each sign.
Forms of tick-tack
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Questions about tick-tack
- What is tick-tack the alternative form of?
- Tick-tack is the alternative form of tick tack.
Words near tick-tack in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tick-tack (page history and authors); tick tack (page history and authors); tic-tac (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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