The story
Unadapted borrowing from Malay tikam-tikam lit. “to stab repeatedly; knife game” from reduplication of tikam “to stab”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tikam-tikam
Today it means: A kind of lucky draw or lottery-like game popular throughout the 1950s to the 1970s; usually, prizes are won by pulling slips of paper or numbered tickets from a board. Full definition →