[
UK
/tˈɪktæk/
]
VERB
-
make a sound like a clock or a timer
the grandfather clock beat midnight
the clocks were ticking
NOUN
- system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks
How To Use ticktack In A Sentence
- To small virtues would they fain lure and laud me; to the ticktack of small happiness would they fain persuade my foot. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
- Verily, to such measure and ticktack, it liketh neither to dance nor to stand still. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
- And Thursday you wrap it up is that a fair ticktack, as they say? CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008
- We have all of our people here, we have Dana Bash, Suzanne Malveaux, who will be giving us the back-and-forth and the ticktack about what happened last night. CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2008
- The ticktack sound of ice bouncing off ice filled the world, and the temperature plummeted even lower. Kings of Colorado
- The engineer was leaning on one arm, with his head out of the cab window, and Hemenway nodded as he passed and hurried into the ticket office, where the ticktack of a conversation by telegraph was soon under way. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
