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Ticktack

Ticktack \Tick"tack`\, n. [See Tick to beat, to pat, and (for sense 2) cf. Tricktrack.]

  1. A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

  2. A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.

    A game at ticktack with words.
    --Milton.

Ticktack

Ticktack \Tick"tack`\, adv. With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.

Wiktionary
ticktack

interj. (dated form of tick tock English) n. 1 A noise like that made by a clock or a watch. 2 A kind of backgammon played with both man and pegs; tricktrack.

WordNet
ticktack

n. system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks

ticktack

v. make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: tick, ticktock, beat]

Usage examples of "ticktack".

Utter silence descended upon the court room--silence broken only by the slow ticktack of the self-winding clock on the rear wall and the whine of the electric cars on Park Row.