ticktock

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ticktock

interjection

alternative Alternative form of tick-tock

verb ticktocks · ticktocking · ticktocked

alternative Alternative form of tick-tock The son bent bushy eyebrows in an icy glance; Old Cornelius looked away — at the floor, into the fire, up at the clock ticktocking on the mantel, the clock which was Phebe Hand’s reserve magazine in the family’s ceaseless battle with want; most of the money stowed behind the swaying pendulum now cam

noun ticktocks

alternative Alternative form of tick-tock A few days ago, the Washington Post published a long, depressing ticktock of the Trump administration’s execrable attempts to control the coronavirus and “reopen” the country for business, beginning with a shocking but not exactly surprising anecdote about how the president’s economic advisers had a

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@misc{ticktock_2026,
  title = {ticktock},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ticktock},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}