ticktock

intj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of tick-tock.

verb

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of tick-tock.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.”

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of tick-tock.

   “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.”