Usually means: Stimulating skin causes laughter reflex.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tickle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tickle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tickle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tickle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tickle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tickle, tickle: Wordnik
  7. tickle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tickle, tickle: Wiktionary
  9. tickle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tickle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tickle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tickle: Dictionary.com
  13. tickle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tickle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tickle (TV series), Tickle (disambiguation), Tickle (surname), Tickle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tickle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tickle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tickle: Rhymezone
  19. tickle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tickle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tickle: Free Dictionary
  22. tickle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tickle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. tickle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tickle: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tickle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tickle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tickle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tickle: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tickle, tickle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Tickle: Urban Dictionary

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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 causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
verb:  (transitive) To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
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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