Definitions for ticktack

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ticktack tick·tack

Spelling: [tik-tak]

IPA: /ˈtɪkˌtæk/

Ticktack is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in ticktack (accikktt).

Definitions for ticktack

noun

1. a repetitive sound, as of ticking, tapping, knocking, or clicking:
2. a device for making a tapping sound, as against a window or door in playing a practical joke.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a repeated ticking or tapping sound:

Origin of ticktack

1540-50; imitative See tick¹

Examples for ticktack

ticktack (tick-tick) has also been repeated by a boy of two years for a watch.

To small virtues would they fain lure and laud me; to the ticktack of small happiness would they fain persuade my foot.

And there it was that Pere Merlier's mill enlivened with its ticktack a corner of wild verdure.

Verily, to such measure and ticktack, it liketh neither to dance nor to stand still.