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ti king

  • 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 .
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