ticktock

See also: tick tock and tick-tock

English

Interjection

ticktock

1. Alternative form of tick-tock.

Verb

ticktock (third-person singular simple present ticktocks, present participle ticktocking, simple past and past participle ticktocked)

1. Alternative form of tick-tock.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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

     A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.

Noun

ticktock (plural ticktocks)

1. Alternative form of tick-tock.