Usually means: Light touches causing laughter, sensation.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tickles: Merriam-Webster
  2. tickles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tickles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tickle's, Tickles, tickles: Wordnik
  5. tickles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Tickles, tickles: Wiktionary
  7. tickles: Dictionary.com
  8. tickles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tickles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. tickles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tickles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tickles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tickles: Idioms

(Note: See tickle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tickle)

noun:  The act of tickling.
noun:  An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
noun:  (cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.
noun:  (Newfoundland) A narrow strait, such as between an island and the shore.
verb:  (transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which typically causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
verb:  (intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
verb:  (transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
verb:  (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.
verb:  (intransitive) To feel titillation.
verb:  (transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
verb:  (archaic) To be excited or heartened.
adjective:  (obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.
adverb:  Insecurely, precariously, unstably.
noun:  A habitational surname from Old English.
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