Definition & Meaning | English word TICK-TOCK

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Definitions of TICK-TOCK

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

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Examples of Using TICK-TOCK in a Sentence

• These clock sounds are followed by a two-minute passage dominated by Nick Mason's drum solo, with rototoms and backgrounded by a tick-tock sound created by Roger Waters picking two muted strings on his bass.
• Pointing to it, he said "El tic, eu tac, el tic, eu tac" (punning on tic-tac, the Romanian equivalent of "tick-tock", but also meaning "It ticks, I am silent, it ticks, I am silent").
• Palmer expounds on the many advantages of an artificial and subhuman partner over real ones in a tick-tock rhythm reminiscent of automata or clockwork.
• Albert Tannenbaum (January 17, 1906 – November 1976), nicknamed Allie or Tick-Tock, was a Jewish-American hitman for Murder, Inc.
• In Intel's Tick-Tock cycle, the 2007/2008 "Tick" was the shrink of the Core microarchitecture to 45 nanometers as CPUID model 23.
• It included the songs "Moj živote dal si živ" (My Life, Are You Alive), "Tika-tak" (Tick-Tock), "Bio si mi drag" (You Were Dear to Me) and "Pedeset godina" (Fifty Years) and the title track, among others.
• The information provided by Reles and other mob turncoats, such as Allie "Tick-Tock" Tannenbaum and Max Rubin, resulted in a guilty verdict and sentence of death for each of the three defendants.
• When they fail and are bailed out of prison by Snapdragon's lawyer, Count Nefaria reduces Dansen Macabre, Digger, the Needle, the Tatterdemalion, Tick-Tock, and the Misfit to ashes.
• Flying Tiger is among the superhuman individuals abducted by Locksmith and Tick-Tock where they're placed in Locksmith's prison.
• The interval act featured guest performances by Denmark's Eurovision Song Contest 2013 winner Emmelie de Forest performing "Only Teardrops", 2014 Ukrainian Eurovision entrant Maria Yaremchuk performing "Tick-Tock" and the local bands the Crowns and Red Electrick.

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