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tikam tikam

tikam tikam is the alternative form of tikam-tikam.

Meaning of tikam-tikam

Noun

tikam-tikam (uncountable)

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore) A kind of lucky draw or lottery-like game popular throughout the 1950s to the 1970s; usually, prizes are won by pulling slips of paper or numbered tickets from a board.
    • Because school children were forgoing food to play tikam-tikam games with their pocket money, hawkers were eventually banned from selling tikam-tikam to children.2013, Kok Yang Tan, From the Blue Windows: Recollections of Life in Queenstown, Singapore, in the 1960s and 1970s, Ridge Books, →ISBN

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Questions about tikam tikam

What is tikam tikam the alternative form of?
Tikam tikam is the alternative form of tikam-tikam.

Words near tikam tikam in the dictionary

  1. tik
  2. tika
  3. tikal
  4. tikals
  5. tikam
  6. tikam tikam
  7. tikam-tikam
  8. Tikamgarh
  9. tikanga
  10. tikanga Maori
  11. tikangas

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