- tick-tacking
- Australian Slangtype of manual, and illegal, semaphore once popularly used at racetracks between bookmakers and their touts
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Tick-tacking — type of manual, and illegal, semaphore once popularly used at racetracks between bookmakers and their touts … Dictionary of Australian slang
tick-tack — /ˈtɪk tæk/ (say tik tak) noun 1. a system by which bookmakers make secret signals among themselves at a race meeting. –verb (i) 2. to signal by tick tack. –phrase 3. tick tack with, to have secret dealings or negotiations with. –tick tacking,… …
Tick-tack — 1. type of manual, and illegal, semaphore once popularly used at racetracks between bookmakers and their touts; 2. type of skateboard manoeuvre of the 1970s in which the front wheels are made to hit the ground to the right and left alternatively; … Dictionary of Australian slang
tick-tack — Australian Slang 1. type of manual, and illegal, semaphore once popularly used at racetracks between bookmakers and their touts; 2. type of skateboard manoeuvre of the 1970s in which the front wheels are made to hit the ground to the right and… … English dialects glossary
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