- ticky-tack
- I. noun see ticky-tacky I II. adjective see ticky-tacky II
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
ticky-tack
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ticky-tack — I. noun see ticky tacky I II. adjective see ticky tacky II … Useful english dictionary
ticky-tacky — I. noun also ticky tack (plural ticky tackies; also ticky tacks) Etymology: reduplication of tacky Date: 1962 sleazy or shoddy material used especially in the construction of look alike tract houses; also something built of ticky tacky II.… … New Collegiate Dictionary
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