Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Ticktack   Listen
Ticktack

noun
1.
System of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks.
verb
1.
Make a sound like a clock or a timer.  Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktock.  "The grandfather clock beat midnight"





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Ticktack" Quotes from Famous Books



... are sent for into this or t'other Alehouse or Tavern, about an Excise-mans business; or to write a Will, or a Contract of agreement of Merchandize; though it be to no other end or purpose then to have a perfect knowledge who plaies best at Ticktack, Irish, Backgammon, Passage, or All-fours. From thence then they cannot come before it be late in the night, and have learnt there to make a Scotch Will so wel, that they are, by two witnesses, half carried, and half trail'd home to ...
— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh


Copyright © 2025 Free Translator.org