Usually means: Cheap, uniform, low-quality material.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. ticky-tacky: Merriam-Webster
  2. ticky-tacky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ticky-tacky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ticky-tacky, ticky-tacky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ticky-tacky: Wordnik
  6. ticky-tacky: Wiktionary
  7. ticky-tacky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. ticky-tacky: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ticky-tacky: Dictionary.com
  10. ticky-tacky: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ticky-tacky: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ticky-tacky: A Word A Day

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ticky-tacky)

noun:  (US) Cheap, low-quality building material, especially as that used to make conventional suburban housing of a uniform design.
adjective:  (US) Made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality.
adjective:  (by extension) Inferior, minor, trivial.

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