Crossword clues for tic
tic
- Habitual spasm
- First correct "Hollywood Squares" square
- First "O" of O-O-O
- ___ Tac (breath freshener)
- X or O, in a game
- Uncontrollable spasm
- Uncontrollable movement
- Tiny spasm
- Square one?
- Repetitive throat-clearing, e.g
- Poker game tell, maybe
- One-third of a child's game
- Odd habit
- It may be nervous
- It may be a sign of stress
- It can't be helped
- Hold 'em tell, maybe
- Game name start
- First X, say
- First X, maybe
- First of a game trio
- Behavioral oddity
- "___ Tac Dough" (old game show)
- -- Tac (breath mint)
- ___ Tac (competitor of Certs)
- ___ Tac (breath mint brand)
- X, in some games
- Wrinkling one's nose, perhaps
- What the odd letters in "twitch" spell
- Unintentional movement
- Uncontrolled contraction
- Uncontrolled action
- Uncomfortable movement
- Tourette's movement
- Throat clearing, perhaps
- The first X of XXX
- Tac toe starter
- Syllable before "Tac" or "-tac-toe"
- Syllable before "tac" in a game
- Sudden facial contraction
- Start of a successful line
- Start of a grid game
- Square one of a child's game?
- Small throe
- Slight jerk
- Sign of nerves, maybe (2)
- Sign of guilt, perhaps
- Recurring twitch
- Recurrent behavior
- Rapid eye blinking, e.g
- Quirky trait
- Quirk or jerk
- Quirk of behavior
- Quick contraction
- Poker table tell, maybe
- Poker game tell, perhaps
- Physical quirk
- Personal hallmark
- Periodically tugging on one's ear, say
- Pencil twirling, e.g
- Partner of toc
- Opening in "Hollywood Squares," essentially
- One X of XXX
- One might be nervous
- One may be nervous
- Odd movement
- Nose twitch, e.g
- Nervous motion
- Minor spasm
- Minor facial spasm, say
- Little bit of personality
- It could be represented by an "X"
- It can be an X or an O
- Involuntary wink, e.g
- Involuntary wink
- Involuntary sign of nerves
- Involuntary jerk, e.g
- Involuntary habit
- Hand shake?
- Half a mint
- Habitual jerk
- Habitual idiosyncrasy
- Habit, of a sort
- First X, potentially
- First X in a game
- First syllable of a simple game
- First syllable of a kids' menu game
- First syllable in a kids' game
- First of three X's
- First of three O's, perhaps
- First of three in a pencil/paper game
- First of three game X's
- First of the toe trio
- First O, say
- First O, maybe
- First O
- First correct "Hollywood Squares" spot
- Facial squirm
- Constantly cracking one's knuckles, e.g
- Constant lip-chewing, e.g
- Constant knuckle-cracking, e.g
- Constant grimacing, e.g
- Child's game opening
- Certain X
- Brief movement
- Breath mint word
- Bit of a jerk
- Behavioral aberration
- Bad liar's giveaway
- An habitual twitch
- A little jerk?
- A kind of twitch
- "Twitch," minus every other letter
- "A Nervous ___ Motion of the Head to the Left" (Andrew Bird song)
- "__-Tac-Dough": TV game show
- "___-Tac-Dough" (quiz show)
- "___-Tac-Dough" (game show)
- ''___ Tac Dough'' (game show)
- ___ Tac mints
- ___ Tac (tiny breath mint)
- ___ Tac (rival of Certs)
- Spasm
- Jerk or quirk
- Mannerism or spasm
- Oddity
- Nervous twitch
- Idiosyncrasy
- Involuntary muscle spasm
- The first X of X-X-X
- Quirky habit
- Facial movement
- Facial spasm
- Twitch
- Behavioral trait
- First of three-in-a-row
- Opening in "Hollywood Squares"
- Game opener?
- Certain X or O
- Behavioral quirk
- Muscle spasm
- Sudden contraction
- The first X?
- Start of a simple game
- An X could represent it
- Personal quirk
- X-X-X part
- The first O of O-O-O
- ___-tac-toe
- Part of three-in-a-row
- Start of a winning combination
- Muscle movement
- Foible
- Quirky behavior
- One might be verbal
- ___ Tacs (breath mints)
- Peculiarity
- Nervous mannerism
- First X or O, say
- First of three X's or O's
- Little jerk?
- With 24- and 45-Across, game represented by this completed puzzle's grid
- Starting O, maybe
- One of the X's in X-X-X
- Small jerk
- One of the X's in XXX
- Part of X-X-X
- Daughter of 48-Across who helped 13-Across
- Odd mannerism
- Not too big a jerk
- Tourette's symptom
- Part of XXX
- Constantly adjusting one's glasses, e.g.
- A local and habitual twitching especially in the face
- Fixation
- Twitching
- Start of O and X game
- Muscular contraction
- Muscle contraction
- One of a game trio
- Obsession
- Nerve spasm
- Particularity
- Start of a winning line
- Muscular spasm
- Facial problem
- Constantly twirling a lock of hair, e.g.
- Involuntary wink, maybe
- Contraction of a sort
- Sign of nervousness
- Muscular twitch
- Neuralgic symptom
- Sign of stress, sometimes
- Facial twitch
- Minor facial malady
- Muscle twitch
- Muscle convulsion
- Movement perceived in previous answer?
- Convulsive spasm
- What twitch regularly shows?
- Sort of movement some solicitor set up
- Little jerk not quite recalling quote
- Recurrent movement in first third of game (see 6)
- Involuntary spasm
- Involuntary habitual response
- Involuntary muscular spasm
- Twitch irregularly — or regularly — with this
- Twitch, seen every so often?
- Adjective suffix
- Involuntary twitch, e.g
- Sudden movement
- Involuntary movement
- Check mark
- -- -tac-toe
- Nervous ___
- Sign of nerves, perhaps
- Unconscious quirk
- Involuntary muscular contraction
- Recurrent twitch
- Nervous reaction
- Nervous habit
- Muscle jerk
- Little spasm
- Involuntary contraction
- Sudden spasm
- Start of a grid-based game
- Small spasmodic reaction
- Involuntary muscle movement
- Nervous movement
- First X or O?
- Start of a pencil-and-paper game
- Persistent personal quirk
- First X?
- First O of O-O-O
- ___ Tac (brand of breath mints)
- Recurring blink, say
- Rapid blinking, e.g
- Personality quirk
- Partner of tac and toe
- Part of O-O-O
- Part of a child's game
- Nervous twinge
- Half a mint?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tic \Tic\, n. [F.] (Med.)
A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles;
especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face;
twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.
--Dunglison.
Tic douloureux. [F., fr. tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful.] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
twitching of a facial muscle, 1822, often a shortening of tic douloureux "severe facial neuralgia," literally "painful twitch" (1798), from French tic "a twitching disease of horses" (17c.), of unknown origin. Klein suggests an imitative origin; Diez compare it to Italian ticchio "whim, caprice, ridiculous habit," itself of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A local and repetitive motion of certain muscles. 2 Shortened form of ticket vb. (context intransitive English) To exhibit a tic; to undergo repetitive muscle movements.
WordNet
n. a local and habitual twitching especially in the face
Wikipedia
A tic is a sudden, repetitive, nonrhythmic movement or sound.
Tic or TIC may also refer to:
Businesses and organizations:
- Technology Innovation Centre, at Birmingham City University
- Telecommunication Infrastructure Company of I.R.Iran
- Tyne Improvement Commission of Tyne and Wear, England
People:
- Tic Forrester (1896–1970), a U.S. Representative from Georgia
- Tic Price (b. 1955), a college basketball coach
In science and technology:
- Titanium carbide, chemical symbol TiC
- Total inorganic carbon, a measure in oceanography
- Total ion current, a type of mass chromatogram
- Trusted Internet Connection, as defined by the US Office of Management and Budget
Other uses:
- Tenancy in common, in property law, a form of concurrent estate
- Tourist Information Centre
- Treasury International Capital, a set of US Treasury reports
Usage examples of "tic".
He made no concessions to the warm weather: he wore a black barathea morning suit with a fancy brocaded waistcoat, and a loose tic with a silver pin through the knot.
If damage to the caudate is part of the treatment, why is her tic different?
Johanna thought, moistening her lips as she flipped down the sun visor of her helmet and squinted into the brightness ahead: pale blue sky and white haze and the sun like a blinding tic at the corner of her eye.
Eddie, still racing Hooper down the stretch for the alleged Black Crow, was delighted to find Freud so tight into anal sadism, and developed a facial tic.
Even the most orthodox practitioners had begun to view many forms of illness as internalized behavioral problems--which had always been obvious so far as facial tics, stammers, addictions, and so forth were concerned --and hypnotherapy was proving a useful, inexpensive, effective, and nontoxic form of treatment in many cases: in particular the lowering of blood pressure.
Tinkie had taken Sweetie to a doggy salon and given her a new look, changing her from a brindled red tic hound to a vibrant shade of redbone.
His most troublesome illness was trigeminal neuralgia, sometimes called tic douloureux, a disorder of the fifth cranial nerve.
He had a mental neuralgia, a great deal worse in many respects than tic douloureux confined to the face.
We have already commented, in this connection, on the exacerbation or recurrence of respiratory crises, oculogyric crises, iterative hyperkineses, and tics.
All of us who lived through those days came out the other side mumbling under our breaths, quivering with twitches, tics, and phobias.
We grew tics, which constantly twitched, and harvested and bundled them for the clocks of other folk.
Then I scoured the region, watching for wild tics, and managed to spy one.
Cathbad, his white robe unmarred, stood to watch every wriggle and writhe and jerk, the direction each took, the part of the body involved, clonus of head or arms or shoulders or legs, twitches in the fingers or toes, dying tics in the buttocks.
She knew the pain of these tics because she had witnessed his face recently all the muscles twitching and distorting like some kind of Halloween mask.
Tegg felt a sharp pain in the very top of his skull, and one of his tics hit him hard.