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tick-tack

[tik-tak]

tick·tack

[tik-tak]
noun
1.
a repetitive sound, as of ticking, tapping, knocking, or clicking: the ticktack of high heels in the corridor.
2.
a device for making a tapping sound, as against a window or door in playing a practical joke.
verb (used without object)
3.
to make a repeated ticking or tapping sound: Sleet ticktacked against the window panes.

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Tick-tack is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Also, tictac.


Origin:
1540–50; imitative See tick1
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