Crossword clues for tickler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tickler \Tic"kler\, n.
One who, or that which, tickles.
Something puzzling or difficult.
A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. [Com. Cant, U. S.]
--Bartlett.A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who or thing which amuses, tickles, excites. 2 A reminder. 3 A latex condom that has additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user. 4 (context dated English) Something puzzling or difficult; a conundrum. 5 (context US dated slang business English) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. 6 (context UK dated English) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
WordNet
n. a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done [syn: tickler file]
Wikipedia
Tickler may refer to:
- Tickler file, a collection of date-labeled file folders
- Tickler oscillator, a type of electronic circuit
- French tickler (disambiguation)
- Spanish Tickler, a type of torture instrument
Usage examples of "tickler".
It had blast scrubbers, pulse kneaders, and flab ticklers, and it had a rack full of snap-on nozzle attachments whose purposes Leia could only guess at.
It was a very terrible spectacle to see those faceless and rubbery ticklers at their pastime, and tremendously impressive to watch the dense cloud of them spreading through the town and up the winding roadway to the reaches above.
The way he was jumping around last time, that tickler was going to cootch him to pieces in a week.
Purple Closet, housing a collection of whips, goads, ticklers, chains and manacles of solid gold, encrusted with diamonds and emeralds.
Plumstead to live at Littlebath, and it had also happened--most unfortunately--that the embryo Mrs Tickler, in the warmth of her neighbourly regard, had written a friendly line to her friend Griselda Grantly, congratulating her with all the female sincerity on her splendid nuptials with the Lord Dumbello.
On sharp interrogation by Gusterson, however, it appeared that these last were not ticklers but merely two-way radios linked to the school police station.
At three zero zero tomorrow, ticklers become mandatory for all adult shelterfolk.
Gusterson, that everybody was quiet and abstracted and orderly down below, especially the ones wearing ticklers, meaning pretty much everybody?
Then the ticklers took off straight up on their new and shining bodies.
Selina swears to God that she just managed the counter, peddling ticklers and crotch-less pants and plastic ladies a vibrator saleswoman and dildo-wrapper, no more.
I told Darla to load up the tickler with an upper-downer cocktail: a 1 mg solution of hydromorphone with 5 mg of amphetamine sulfate thrown in to keep me alert.
Kneeling next to Marla's bed with my hands still cold from outside, feeling Marla's cold skin a little at a time, rubbing a little of Marla between my fingers every inch, Marla says those warts that are God's French ticklers give women cervical cancer.
On the escaladder he told someone, “It's cruel to tie ticklers to slow-witted snaily humans when ticklers can think and live .
Gargery’s power to part you and Tickler in sunders, were not fully equal to his inclinations.
It turns out that the file a secretary keeps to remind her boss to do certain things at certain times is called a tickler file.