ticktack
(noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks
tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat
(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer; “the clocks were ticking”; “the grandfather clock beat midnight”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ticktack (uncountable)
A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs.
Synonyms: tricktrack, trictrac
ticktack
Dated form of tick tock.
ticktack (plural ticktacks)
A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
Source: Wiktionary
Tick"tack`, n. Etym: [See Tick to beat, to pat, and (for sense 2) cf. Tricktrack.]
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. Milton.
Tick"tack`, adv.
Definition: With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 June 2025
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
