Tics is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 32 anagrams from letters in tics (cist).
1790-1800; French (of expressive orig.)
In 2013, Der Spiegel pressed him on his condition: Der Spiegel: Has a ball ever slipped out of your hands because of a tic?
I nervously said something about her shirt being off, and she laughed, and we switched the game to tic Tac Toe.
If I could take that tic with me, I should ask nothing more from Heaven.
Elsewhere on this website, Andrew Sullivan has brilliantly designated these convolutions as a “tic of his generation.”
Of the three kinds of neuralgia, the most common by far is tic, or faceache.
Here, then, is a tic springing from an ordinary visual impression.
For an instance, a simple blinking of the eyelids may form a tic.
Then tic two or three times over, and there was no more sound.
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.
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