See Also: outbreak(medicine)
outbreak(1)(dictionary)
outbreak(2)(dictionary)
outbreak(dictionary)
outbreak epidemic(medicine)

tickler (iou) and outbreak (oh)


tickler (iou)



tickler noun. E17.
[from TICKLE verb + -ER1.]
A person who tickles something or someone; spec. (colloq.) a pianist. E17.
A thing which tickles or is used for tickling (lit. & fig.), as (a) a feather brush; (b) a birch, rod, etc., used to beat a person; (c) a device by which a small quantity of petrol is let into the carburettor to aid the starting of an engine; (d) a memorandum; (e) (more fully tickler coil) an inductance coil in the anode circuit of a valve, giving positive feedback through another coil in the grid circuit. L17.
Comb.: tickler coil = sense 2(e) above.

outbreak (oh)



if there is an outbreak of fighting or disease in an area, it suddenly starts to happen
::a cholera outbreak
outbreak of
::outbreaks of fighting
::the outbreak of World War II
-see also break out at break 1