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tick and toy

tick and toy verb: to waste time; to dally or idle.

Verb

tick and toy (third-person singular simple present ticks and toys, present participle ticking and toying, simple past and past participle ticked and toyed)

  1. (obsolete) To waste time; to dally or idle.

Forms of tick and toy

third-person singular presentticks and toys
present participleticking and toying
past participleticked and toyed
pastticked and toyed

Questions about tick and toy

What does tick and toy mean?
Tick and toy means to waste time; to dally or idle.
What part of speech is tick and toy?
Tick and toy is a verb.
What is the past tense of tick and toy?
The past tense of tick and toy is ticked and toyed.

Words near tick and toy in the dictionary

  1. tick a lock
  2. tick a lot of boxes
  3. tick all the boxes
  4. tick and flick
  5. tick and tie
  6. tick and toy
  7. tick away
  8. tick bean
  9. tick beans
  10. tick bite
  11. tick bites

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