ticktock

ticktock

1. Alternative form of tick-tock.

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 Howden Smith, “The Ferryman”, in Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement, New York, N.Y.: Robert M 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.

ticktock (plural ticktocks)

1. Alternative form of tick-tock.
   • 2020 May 6, Jordan Weissmann, “It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify 'Reopening' the Economy”, in Slate‎:

     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.