Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cap. Compare
toque . - noun A kind of hornbill; specifically, the African red-billed hornbill, Toccus erythrorhynchus. The name extends to related species. See
Toccus .
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- noun A
clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.
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Examples
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Hi Amy, It does sound really good, can't wait to get the ARC. *tick tock tick tock*
Coming Soon: The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber Donna 2009
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The tick tock is the two of them met on the 20th of May and there was a conversation.
Think Progress 2006
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The tick tock is the two of them met on the 20th of May and there was a conversation.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Caught In Lie About Snow Resignation 2006
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In Intel parlance, Sandy Bridge is a "tock" - a new architecture on an existing process, while Westmere was a "tick" - an existing (Nehalem) architecture on a new (32nm) process.
The Register 2010
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Meanwhile, the state doles out like clockwork -- where the "tick" follows the "tock" -- annual cost of living increases to unionized state employees performing the same work as their private sector, non-profit counterparts but whom the state cuts almost annually.
David Ormsby: Cullerton Legislature Pay Cut Idea Needs Polishing, But it's a Gem 2009
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Penryn will use Intel's is a minor upgrade to an existing product GPU core under the heat spreader of some new 45nm process and include a host of new line, while the tock is a major redesign of its Nehalem chips.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows vbdotnetnrew 2010
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This road is in many places ex - tremely narrow, being cut out of the folid tock, which is. of tea jOQfeet. perpendicu*. lar in his Tour through France.
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If you say "tock" instead of "key toss" to a Finn, he still understands it.
Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963
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King said the new processors are a classic "tock" in Intel's self-described "tick-tock"
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King said the new processors are a classic "tock" in Intel's self-described "tick-tock"
bilby commented on the word tock
*consoles* I know it's not fair that 7 Wordies are listing tick. I'll give you a home, buddy.
October 22, 2008