Usually means: Clock's rhythmic sound marking time.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. tick-tock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tick-tock: The Word Spy
  3. Tick-Tock, Tick-tock, tick-tock: Wordnik
  4. tick-tock: Wiktionary
  5. tick-tock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tick-tock, tick-tock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tick-tock: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To make continual clicking sounds like those of an analog clock; to tick.
verb:  When marching, to swing arms and legs on the same side at the same time.
noun:  The sound of a ticking clock.
noun:  (journalism) A step-by-step account of an event or timeline.

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