ticktockとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

ticktock (三人称単数 現在形 ticktocks, 現在分詞 ticktocking, 過去形および過去分詞形 ticktocked)

1. Alternative form of tick-tock.
   • 1927, Arthur D[ouglas] Howden Smith, “The Ferryman”, in Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, section III, page 50:

     The son bent bushy eyebrows in an icy glance; Old Cornelius looked away — at the floor, into the fire, up at the clock ticktocking on the mantel, the clock which was Phebe Hand’s reserve magazine in the family’s ceaseless battle with want; most of the money stowed behind the swaying pendulum now came from Corneel.

   • 1986, the Food Editors of McCall’s, “We Welcome the New Year”, in Elaine Prescott Wonsavage, editor, McCall’s Best Holiday Foods & Crafts, Columbus, Oh.: Newfield Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 333:

     As the clock ticktocks away the last few hours and minutes of the year, we look toward a new year filled with hopes of better things to come.

   • 2017, Emily Carpenter, chapter 4, in The Weight of Lies, Seattle, Wash.: Lake Union Publishing, →ISBN, page 23:

     A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.

名詞

ticktock (複数形 ticktocks)

1. Alternative form of tick-tock.

間投詞

tick tock

1. The sound of a ticking clock.
2. (colloquial) A warning of some fateful impending event.
   • 2015, Teresa D. Patterson, Wolf in the Pulpit (page 104)

     You may be smart enough to elude the law for five years, but your time has run out. Tick tock, motherfucker.

派生語

• tick-tock model