ticky-tacky

[tik-ee-tak-ee]

tic·ky-tack·y

[tik-ee-tak-ee] Informal.
adjective
1.
shoddy and unimaginatively designed; flimsy and dull: a row of new, ticky-tacky bungalows.
2.
noun
3.
ticky-tacky material or something made of it, especially housing.

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Ticky-tacky is always a great word to know.
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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.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
Also, tick·y-tack.


Origin:
1960–65; gradational compound based on tacky2
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ticky-tacky definition

[ˈtɪkitæki]
  1. n.
    cheap and shabby material. : Those houses are just made of ticky-tacky, and they won't even be here in twenty years.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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