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tickety boo

tickety boo is the alternative spelling of tickety-boo.

Meaning of tickety-boo

Adjective

tickety-boo (not comparable)

  1. (UK, informal) Correct, satisfactory.
    • I want everything to be all tickety-boo. I want to marry you properly according to the English law so that your people will know that I'm playing straight with you.1947, Nevil Shute [pseudonym; Nevil Shute Norway], chapter 6, in The Chequer Board, [London]: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, 1947, →OCLC, page 220

Questions about tickety boo

What is tickety boo the alternative spelling of?
Tickety boo is the alternative spelling of tickety-boo.

Words near tickety boo in the dictionary

  1. tickets of leave
  2. tickets of occupation
  3. tickets to ride
  4. tickets-of-leave
  5. ticketty-boo
  6. tickety boo
  7. tickety-boo
  8. ticketyboo
  9. tickey
  10. tickey box
  11. tickey boxes

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