(pathology) any of various diseases transmitted by ticks

(baseball, slang, rare) A foul ball which just brushes by the bat, making a ticking sound.

(sometimes methaphorical) To sign with a tick. / To list (create or recite a list). / (Canada, US, transitive) To annoy, aggravate. / (Britain, Australia, transitive) To reprimand.

(Britain) The completion of a form containing multiple-choice questions in which one or more boxes need to be ticked by way of an answer.

plural of tick tock

present participle of make tick

simple past tense and past participle of make tick

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make tick

(colloquial) To cause someone or something to operate the way it does. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, tick.

present participle of tick-tock