Usually means: Involuntary, repetitive muscle movement disorder.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word tic:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tic: Merriam-Webster
  3. tic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tic, tic: Wordnik
  8. tic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. TIC, tic: Wiktionary
  10. tic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. TIC, -tic: Dictionary.com
  14. tic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tic (disambiguation), Tic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tic: Rhymezone
  20. tic, tic, tic, tic (de), tic (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. TIC, tic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. tic: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIC: Accounting Glossary
  2. TIC: Investopedia
  3. tic: Financial dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIC: Netlingo
  2. TIC: CCI Computer
  3. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  8. -tic, tic: Medical dictionary
  9. Tic: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIC: Acronym Finder
  2. TIC: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TIC: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tic, tic, tic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tic: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. TIC: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIC: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (neurology) A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
noun:  (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
verb:  (intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
noun:  (informal) Clipping of ticket. [A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.]
noun:  Initialism of tourist information centre.
noun:  (law) Initialism of tenancy in common. [(law) A form of ownership by two or more individuals in which each owner has a distinct, separately transferable interest which does not pass to the other owner or owners upon death.]
noun:  (finance) Initialism of total invested capital.
noun:  (countable, UK, criminal law, law enforcement) Initialism of offence to be taken into consideration. [(UK, criminal law, law enforcement) An additional criminal offence which a defendant agrees to admit to following their conviction, which is formally taken into account when they are sentenced, but with a lesser weight than a full conviction.]
noun:  (cytology) Initialism of translocon on inner chloroplast membrane.
noun:  Initialism of thermal imaging camera.

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