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tick verb1. ME.
[Prob. rel. to Dutch tikken pat, tick, Old High German zekon pluck, Middle High German zicken push: cf. TICK noun3, TICKLE verb, TIG verb.]
a. verb intrans. Touch or tap a thing or person lightly; spec. pat a person affectionately or amorously. obsolete exc. dial. ME.
Bunyan His sons..ticking and toying with the daughters of their lord.
b. verb trans. = TAG verb2 1. E20.
verb intrans.
a. Of a clock, watch, etc.: operate with or make a tick. E18.
ticking bomb a time bomb.
G. Greene A clock ticked with a cheap tinny sound.
b. spec. Of a taximeter or taxi-cab: make a ticking sound while registering the fare. Usu. foll. by away, up. E20.
B. Pym Do hurry, the taxi's ticking away.
c. Foll. by over: (of an internal-combustion engine) run or work with the propeller or gears disengaged, or at a low rate of revolutions; idle; fig. continue to function, work, etc., esp. at a low capacity or level. E20.
Times Content to let the war tick over but..refused to bring it to an end. Airgun World Guns ticking over at three-quarters of their full power will handle better.
d. Work, function, operate. Esp. in what makes a person tick, what motivates a person. colloq. M20.
Independent Dealing with her mail..and generally keeping 113 Zia Road ticking along.
a. verb trans. Bring to an end, pass, or consume (a period of time) (as) by the ticking of a clock etc. Freq. foll. by away. M19.
R. Broughton The clocks tick it [life] monotonously away.
b. verb intrans. Of time, events, etc.: pass, come to an end. Foll. by by, away. M20.
G. Boycott Each hour ticked away without any news.
verb trans.
a. Mark (an answer, an item in a list, etc.) with a tick as noted, passed, checked, etc.; colloq. identify. Freq. foll. by off. M19.
P. Hobsbaum They're ticked, gone over, somehow rejected. I. McEwan He ticked off the..days until the Christmas holidays.
b. Foll. by off: reprimand, scold. colloq. (orig. Military slang). E20.
B. Bainbridge She..ticked him off for digging his elbow into her shoulder.
c. Foll. by off: annoy; depress, dispirit. N. Amer. slang. M20.
E. Segal The coach is pretty ticked off that I'm cutting practice to work with this kid.
verb intrans. Grumble, complain. slang (orig. Military). E20.
Comb.: tick-off slang a fortune-teller; tick-over the speed or state of an internal-combustion engine which is ticking over.