Wiktionary
deer ticks
n. (deer tick English)
Usage examples of "deer ticks".
She wore stupid clothes for the woods: white shorts, thin white shirt, open sandals, just like we didn't have no deer ticks or blackflies or snakes.
Apart from anything else, it means a whole new set of interesting experimental challenges involving sunburn, poison ivy, infectious deer ticks, electric hedge clippers, and-this goes without saying-barbecue lighter fluid.