Meaning

A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs..

Definitions by Sense

1. A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs.
2. Dated form of tick tock.
3. A repeated ticking noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
4. (intransitive) To make that kind of noise.
5. (transitive, Canada, US) To play a prank that involves making noise outside a person's house by various means.

Example Sentences

And that those pretended Tumults were chastiz'd by thir own Army for new Tumults, is not prov'd by a Game at Tictack with words

A wild young fellow coming home late one night, heard, while he was putting the key into the lock, something on the ground that continually went ticktack, ticktack, ticktack. Stooping down he found it was a silver watch[…]

Damn the thing, why didn't it stop – with its monotonous ticktack; ticktack; ticktack – he could feel it inside his head where it seemed to strike innumerable little blows, on a strained chord it was bent on snapping.

Word Forms

• ticktacks
• ticktacking
• ticktacked

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