ticktock

1. alternativeAlternative form of tick-tock.

present singular third person ticktocks · participle present ticktocking · participle past ticktocked · past ticktocked

1. alternativeAlternative form of tick-tock.

   A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.

   2017, Emily Carpenter, chapter 4, in The Weight of Lies, Seattle, Wash.: Lake Union Publishing, →ISBN, page 23

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   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 came from Corneel.

   1927, Arthur D[ouglas] Howden Smith, “The Ferryman”, in Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, section III, page 50

   As the clock ticktocks away the last few hours and minutes of the year, we look toward a new year filled with hopes of better things to come.

   1986, the Food Editors of McCall’s, “We Welcome the New Year”, in Elaine Prescott Wonsavage, editor, McCall’s Best Holiday Foods & Crafts, Columbus, Oh.: Newfield Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 333

plural ticktocks

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   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 abetted the president’s most destructive impulses.

   2020 May 6, Jordan Weissmann, “It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify 'Reopening' the Economy”, in Slate