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ticky-tacky

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tic⋅ky-tack⋅y

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

Origin:
1960–65; gradational compound based on tacky 2
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tick·y-tack·y   (tĭk'ē-tāk'ē)   
n.  Shoddy material, as for the construction of standardized housing.
adj.  

  1. Made of shoddy material; cheaply built.

    1. Marked by a mediocre uniformity of appearance or style: ticky-tacky rows of look-alike houses.

    2. Tawdry; tacky.


[Reduplication of tacky2.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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ticky-tacky [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.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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