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Ticktack   Listen
noun
Ticktack  n.  
1.
A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
2.
A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack. "A game at ticktack with words."


adverb
Ticktack  adv.  With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.





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"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


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