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tik

tik noun: crystal meth or speed.

Noun

tik (uncountable)

  1. (South Africa, slang) crystal meth or speed.
    • This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast...2004 June 8, “On the Tik-Tik express”, in SABC News, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2006
    • Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik.2006 May 13, Weekend Argus, page 12

Proper noun capitalized: TIK

TIK

  1. The station code of Tiu Keng Leng in Hong Kong.

Origin of tik

Early 21st century, perhaps imitative of the popping sounds made by meth being lit and smoked.

Questions about tik

What does tik mean?
Tik means crystal meth or speed.
What part of speech is tik?
Tik can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near tik in the dictionary

  1. Tijuana
  2. Tijuana Bible
  3. Tijuana Bibles
  4. Tijuanan
  5. Tijuanans
  6. tik
  7. tika
  8. tikal
  9. tikals
  10. tikam
  11. tikam tikam

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tik (page history and authors); TIK (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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