[
UK
/tˈɪktɒk/
]
NOUN
- steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock
VERB
-
make a sound like a clock or a timer
the grandfather clock beat midnight
the clocks were ticking
How To Use ticktock In A Sentence
- The ticktock of the clock on the wall mirrored the sound of my heart. Haven
- I could hear the clock on the wall ticktocking.
- You have been doing some reporting on what we call the ticktock and specifically his wife, Elizabeth? CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008
- The clamorous ticktock, ticktock of his watch would have put any self-respecting alarm clock to shame. THE LONELY SEA
- Politico put it in a ticktock of the ticktocks, administration officials hoped to convey that U.S. News
- The ticktock of the grandfather clock was slightly unnerving. THE KILL CLAUSE
- Both newsweeklies, "TIME" and "Newsweek," have ticktocks, as they call them, what-went-wrong accounts that -- and both make the point, which I haven't seen made that often in the past, that the president doesn't like bad news, that aides fear to tell him that things are going badly. CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2005
- And we'll hopefully have more for you on that tomorrow when Karen -- when Karen ticktocks. CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2001
- Because, as part of a remarkable public relations campaign, the White House released a three-page "ticktock," a newspaper term of art for a minute-by-minute reconstruction of how momentous events unfolded. NYT > Home Page
- Kneeling to cut the cords of newspaper bundles, TickTock, clerking in his father's store, grinned up.
