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tic¹
- /tɪk/ Australia, Canada, US
- /tək/ New Zealand
Sounds like tick · Rhymes with -ɪk
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French tic.
noun tics
- A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization. Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by multiple tics. A tic is a sudden, rapid, repetitive, non-rhythmic movement (e.g. eye blinking) or vocalization (e.g. throat clearing).
- Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically. Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images o
verb tics · ticcing · ticced
- To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement. Patients often describe the need to tic as the mounting of inner tension, localized either to the body region where the tic is about to occur or throughout the body.
tic²
- /tɪk/ Australia, Canada, US
- /tək/ New Zealand
Sounds like tick · Rhymes with -ɪk
Where it comes from
Clipping of ticket.
noun tics
- Clipping of ticket
TIC³
noun TICs
- Initialism of tourist information centre
- Initialism of tenancy in common
- Initialism of total invested capital
- Initialism of offence to be taken into consideration TICs must be admitted by a defendant in addition to the crimes for which they have been convicted.
- Initialism of translocon on inner chloroplast membrane
- Initialism of thermal imaging camera
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: spasm, twitch, twitching, tick, tock, oddity, quirk, idiosyncrasy, board, mannerism, assembly, boards, cit, congress, council, legislature
Translations
Every language
noun local and habitual convulsive motion
| Español | tic, chiripiorca |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 틱 tik |
| 日本語 | チック chikku |
| 中文 | 抽搐 chōuchù |
| Português | tique, cacoete |
| Français | tic |
| Deutsch | Tic, Zucken, nervöses Zucken |
| Română | tic |
| Русский | тик tik, не́рвный тик nérvnyj tik, подёргивание podjórgivanije |
Talk about this word "tic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tic "tic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tic.Cite this
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title = {tic},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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