"tick a lock" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "ticks a lock",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ticking a lock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked a lock",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ticked a lock",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "tick a lock (third-person singular simple present ticks a lock, present participle ticking a lock, simple past and past participle ticked a lock)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, C. David Murphy, A Diary's House",
          "text": "“Tick-a-lock,” he pronounced; all the while twisting his fingers about his lips, and further all the while holding to his constant, dramatic, and overly-serious stare over me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 November 15, Bill Atkinson, “Brock Lesnar: Why WWE Should Never Allow Him to Cut Long Promos”, in Bleacher Report",
          "text": "When Lesnar comes back, either at WWE Survivor Series 2012 or on a future program, he just needs to tick a lock.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kathleen Gerard, How to Become a Bodyguard for Celine Dion's Larynx",
          "text": "Exaggerate the “tick a lock” symbol on your lips and press the palms of your hands down toward the floor as a reminder to Madame Celine if she babbles on incessantly in her thick, French Canadian accent, bickering to her beloved husband, Rene, about their trio of boys-will-be-boys sons and her recurrent professional fears that a) she only takes home one award at the Grammy's next year, and b) she contracts tonsillitis and suffers a bout of subsequent prolonged laryngitis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep quiet or keep a secret."
      ],
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  "word": "tick a lock"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ticks a lock",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticking a lock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked a lock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked a lock",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tick a lock (third-person singular simple present ticks a lock, present participle ticking a lock, simple past and past participle ticked a lock)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, C. David Murphy, A Diary's House",
          "text": "“Tick-a-lock,” he pronounced; all the while twisting his fingers about his lips, and further all the while holding to his constant, dramatic, and overly-serious stare over me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 November 15, Bill Atkinson, “Brock Lesnar: Why WWE Should Never Allow Him to Cut Long Promos”, in Bleacher Report",
          "text": "When Lesnar comes back, either at WWE Survivor Series 2012 or on a future program, he just needs to tick a lock.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kathleen Gerard, How to Become a Bodyguard for Celine Dion's Larynx",
          "text": "Exaggerate the “tick a lock” symbol on your lips and press the palms of your hands down toward the floor as a reminder to Madame Celine if she babbles on incessantly in her thick, French Canadian accent, bickering to her beloved husband, Rene, about their trio of boys-will-be-boys sons and her recurrent professional fears that a) she only takes home one award at the Grammy's next year, and b) she contracts tonsillitis and suffers a bout of subsequent prolonged laryngitis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep quiet or keep a secret."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tick a lock"
}