tick off

Verb

tick off (third-person singular simple present ticks off, present participle ticking off, simple past and past participle ticked off)

1. (figuratively, sometimes) To sign an item on a list with a tick mark, especially as a signal that the item has been verified or completed.
   • I ticked off Harry today because he announced he was present.
   • I ticked three things off the list in my head, and had only four chores left to do.

   Synonyms:

   check off, catalogue, enumerate, list, recite, tabulate

2. To list (create or recite a list).
   • In a lengthy missive dispatched the next afternoon, Wheeler ticked off a laundry list of reasons why he could not obey Bragg's order.2010, David A. Powell, Failure in the Saddle, Savas Beatie, →ISBN, page 68
   • “So many wars here,” says Luo Xin, my walking partner and a brilliant writer and professor of history from Peking University.
     I ask Luo to name them.
     Not breaking stride, he ticks off the wars between the Three Kingdoms more than 2,200 years ago. And then the Han-Xiongnu war of the second century...2023 November 8, Paul Salopek, “River Blues”, in National Geographic

   Synonyms:

   enumerate, recite

3. (Canada, US, transitive) To annoy, aggravate.
   • It really ticks me off when people don't use proper punctuation.

   Synonyms:

   bug, irk, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass, antagonize

4. (Australia, UK, transitive, historically US) To reprimand.
   • Fred was ticked off by the teacher for playing around in class.
   • Having ticked us off in this way, the rascal had an elaborate description of rails at the pit mouth, and of a zigzag excavation by which funicular trains were to burrow into the earth.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed

   Synonyms:

   admonish, tell off, animadvert, bash, bawl out, tilt, cannonade, slash, lash, blame