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tickle the ivory

tickle the ivory is the alternative form of tickle the ivories.

Meaning of tickle the ivories

Verb

tickle the ivories (third-person singular simple present tickles the ivories, present participle tickling the ivories, simple past and past participle tickled the ivories)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To play a piano or other keyboard instrument.
    • […] Charles Jarvis, the Philadelphia pianist, […] tickled the ivories with old time unction and gave some of the audience the impression that Philadelphia was really a musical city.1890 December 13, Hans Slack, “Real Music in Baltimore”, in Marc A. Blumenberg, Otto Floersheim, editors, Musical Courier: A Weekly Journal, volume XXI, number 25, New York, N.Y.: Blumenberg &...

Forms of tickle the ivory

third-person singular presenttickles the ivory
present participletickling the ivory
past participletickled the ivory
pasttickled the ivory

Questions about tickle the ivory

What is tickle the ivory the alternative form of?
Tickle the ivory is the alternative form of tickle the ivories.

Words near tickle the ivory in the dictionary

  1. tickle someone's funny bone
  2. tickle someone's pickle
  3. tickle the dragon's tail
  4. tickle the ear
  5. tickle the ivories
  6. tickle the ivory
  7. tickle the sausage
  8. tickle the wire
  9. tickle-footed
  10. tickleace
  11. tickleaces

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