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1. MalaysiaSingaporeuncountableA 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.

   Because school children were forgoing food to play tikam-tikam games with their pocket money, hawkers were eventually banned from selling tikam-tikam to children.

   2013, Kok Yang Tan, From the Blue Windows: Recollections of Life in Queenstown, Singapore, in the 1960s and 1970s, Ridge Books, →ISBN

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   By day, she sold entrance tickets to those who wanted to try their luck at the teeming gambling stalls within the “City Park”, catering to the Chinese residents in the town. By night, she assisted at a pinball stall, collecting tickets and putting out tennis balls for a game of “tikam tikam”.

   2019, Yik Kwei, The Adventurous Streak - Revised, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN

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1. ManglishSinglishinvariableTo choose (something) at random.

   They cannot complain. Tikam-tikam means, play with chance. Sometimes win, sometimes lose.

   2021 December 29, Yap Swi Neo, You Might Want To Marry My Husband: Reflections from Life, Monsoon Books Pte. Limited, →ISBN

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   Some days, it felt more like gambling than expert precision: Just tikam-tikam, lah! (Malay for “choose randomly,” commonly used by impatient people queueing to buy 4D tickets).

   2023 March 3, Sophia Shi Yin Chin, Dancing On The Edge Of Greatness: Making Leadership Personal, World Scientific Publishing Company, →ISBN

alternative tikam · alternative tikam tikam

1. ManglishSinglishnot comparableArbitrarily chosen; characterized by random choices.

   it's open secret that finance industry is all tikam tikam one.

   2018 December 30, koja6049, lowyat.net