Tick-tock

Quick meaning: Tick-tock is an interjection meaning The sound of the ticking of an analog clock.

Meaning

The sound of the ticking of an analog clock.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial) Time is running out; a deadline is approaching.
2. To make continual clicking sounds like those of an analog clock; to tick.
3. When marching, to swing arms and legs on the same side at the same time.
4. The sound of a ticking clock.
5. (journalism) A step-by-step account of an event or timeline.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: clock is ticking

You may be smart enough to elude the law for five years, but your time has run out. Tick tock, motherfucker.

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.

Ex-military didn't pass up the chance to harshly criticise the mediocre stepping, noting their "tick-tocking" technique which is a term used in the army, describing moving arm and leg on the same side in the same direction while marching.

Word Forms

• ticktock
• tick-tocks
• tick-tocking
• tick-tocked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ticking, tick, ticktock, snick, warn, clack.

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