Definitions for TIC

TIC tic

Spelling: [tik]
IPA: /tɪk/

Tic is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in TIC (cit).

Definitions for TIC

noun

  1. Pathology. a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face. tic douloureux.
  2. a persistent or recurrent behavioral trait; personal quirk:

Origin of TIC

1790-1800; French (of expressive orig.)

Examples for TIC

I nervously said something about her shirt being off, and she laughed, and we switched the game to tic Tac Toe.

Of the three kinds of neuralgia, the most common by far is tic, or faceache.

I have spoken of Peruvian bark as a remedy in tic douloureux.

He was asked if he worried that a tic might someday cause him to drop a ball.

In 2013, Der Spiegel pressed him on his condition: Der Spiegel: Has a ball ever slipped out of your hands because of a tic?

If I could take that tic with me, I should ask nothing more from Heaven.

Then tic two or three times over, and there was no more sound.

For an instance, a simple blinking of the eyelids may form a tic.

Here, then, is a tic springing from an ordinary visual impression.

Elsewhere on this website, Andrew Sullivan has brilliantly designated these convolutions as a “tic of his generation.”

Word Value for TIC
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

Similar words for TIC
Word of the day