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Ticktock means Alternative form of tick-tock..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · interjection
Alternative form of tick-tock..
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.
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.
A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.
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.
Use ticktock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ticktock means Alternative form of tick-tock..
Common synonyms include beat, tick, ticktack, tictac.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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