"tick-tock" meaning in English

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Interjection

Etymology: Onomatopoeia based on tick. Etymology templates: {{m|en|tick}} tick Head templates: {{en-interj}} tick-tock
  1. The sound of a ticking analog clock. Categories (topical): Sounds Translations (sound of a ticking clock): tic tac (Catalan), 滴答 (dīdā) (Chinese Mandarin), tiktako (Esperanto), tik-tak (Finnish), tik tak (Finnish), tic-tac (French), ticktack (German), תִִּקְתָּק (Hebrew), תיק תק (tik-tak) (Hebrew), tik-tak (Hungarian), tic tac (Italian), tictac (Italian), チクタク (chiku-taku) (Japanese), tatetate (Maori), tik-tak (Polish), tik-tok (Polish), тик-так (tik-tak) (Russian), tictac (Spanish), tic tac (Spanish), tic-tac (Spanish), tik tak (Turkish), tích tắc (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-tick-tock-en-intj-Mt7EV2OT Disambiguation of Sounds: 27 3 30 6 30 4 Categories (other): English apophonic reduplications, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English onomatopoeias, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English apophonic reduplications: 31 3 7 6 27 26 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 1 2 2 31 26 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 35 1 3 3 30 29 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 30 3 7 5 26 30 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 30 2 10 5 25 27 Disambiguation of 'sound of a ticking clock': 96 4
  2. (colloquial) A warning of some fateful impending event. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-tick-tock-en-intj-OhAiKVV1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tick tock, ticktock Derived forms: tick-tock biological clock, tick-tock model, TikTok

Noun

Forms: tick-tocks [plural]
Etymology: Onomatopoeia based on tick. Etymology templates: {{m|en|tick}} tick Head templates: {{en-noun}} tick-tock (plural tick-tocks)
  1. The sound of a ticking clock. Categories (topical): Sounds
    Sense id: en-tick-tock-en-noun-2AmZ-rEb Disambiguation of Sounds: 27 3 30 6 30 4 Categories (other): English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 30 2 10 5 25 27
  2. (journalism) A step-by-step account of an event or timeline. Categories (topical): Mass media
    Sense id: en-tick-tock-en-noun-8TVN~caZ Topics: journalism, media
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tick tock, ticktock

Verb

Forms: tick-tocks [present, singular, third-person], tick-tocking [participle, present], tick-tocked [participle, past], tick-tocked [past]
Etymology: Onomatopoeia based on tick. Etymology templates: {{m|en|tick}} tick Head templates: {{en-verb}} tick-tock (third-person singular simple present tick-tocks, present participle tick-tocking, simple past and past participle tick-tocked)
  1. To make continual clicking sounds like those of an analog clock; to tick. Categories (topical): Sounds Translations (to make clicking sounds): tiktaki (Esperanto), tictaquer (French), ticken (German), тикать (tikatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), тикают (tikajut) [imperfective, neuter, plural] (Russian), tictaquear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-tick-tock-en-verb-F97je9B4 Disambiguation of Sounds: 27 3 30 6 30 4 Categories (other): English apophonic reduplications, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English onomatopoeias, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English apophonic reduplications: 31 3 7 6 27 26 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 1 2 2 31 26 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 35 1 3 3 30 29 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 30 3 7 5 26 30 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 30 2 10 5 25 27 Disambiguation of 'to make clicking sounds': 93 7
  2. When marching, to swing arms and legs on the same side at the same time.
    Sense id: en-tick-tock-en-verb-Ws8Oveby Categories (other): English apophonic reduplications, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English onomatopoeias, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English apophonic reduplications: 31 3 7 6 27 26 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 1 2 2 31 26 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 35 1 3 3 30 29 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 30 3 7 5 26 30 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 30 2 10 5 25 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tick tock, ticktock

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "tick-tock model"
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        "The sound of a ticking analog clock."
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          "ref": "2015, Teresa D. Patterson, Wolf in the Pulpit, page 104",
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        "A warning of some fateful impending event."
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        "(colloquial) A warning of some fateful impending event."
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    {
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      "word": "ticktock"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tic tac"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dīdā",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "滴答"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tiktako"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tik-tak"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tik tak"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tic-tac"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "ticktack"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "תִִּקְתָּק"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "tik-tak",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "תיק תק"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tik-tak"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tic tac"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tictac"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chiku-taku",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "チクタク"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tatetate"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tik-tak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tik-tok"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tik-tak",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "тик-так"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tictac"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tic tac"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tic-tac"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tik tak"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "sound of a ticking clock",
      "word": "tích tắc"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tick-tock"
}

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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to make clicking sounds",
      "word": "tiktaki"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to make clicking sounds",
      "word": "tictaquer"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make clicking sounds",
      "word": "ticken"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tikatʹ",
      "sense": "to make clicking sounds",
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      ],
      "word": "тикать"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tikajut",
      "sense": "to make clicking sounds",
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        "imperfective",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "тикают"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make clicking sounds",
      "word": "tictaquear"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tick-tock"
}

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          "ref": "2023 March 22, Ben West, “This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Stepping inside from the courtyard, there was silence except for the tick-tock of the antique grandfather clock in the great hall. The hulking cream-and-gray flagstones underfoot had been worn away from centuries of service.",
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          "text": "2020: \"Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify 'Reopening' the Economy\" by Jordan Weissmann on Slate\nA 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 abetted the president’s most destructive impulses."
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        "A step-by-step account of an event or timeline."
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        "(journalism) A step-by-step account of an event or timeline."
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    {
      "word": "tick tock"
    },
    {
      "word": "ticktock"
    }
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}

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