ticking
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- n a metallic tapping sound
- n a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers
- v make a clicking or ticking sound
- v make a sound like a clock or a timer
the clocks were ticking - v sew
- v put a check mark on or near or next to
- Wall's auditors discovered a whole ticking arsenal, in fact, but not for two long years.
- Neither was the guy ripping through chains embedded in his flesh to dismantle a ticking bomb in front of him.
- Over a pulsing synthesizer, a ticking clock, a rumbling timpani and countless other perfectly calibrated whirs and beeps, Madonna declares, "I don't like cities, but I like New .