verb (tr, adverb)
to mark with a tick
informal, mainly British to scold; reprimand
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Derived forms of tick off
ticking off or ticking-off, nounWords nearby tick off
tickler file,
tickle the ivories,
ticklish,
tickly,
Ticknor,
tick off,
tick over,
tickseed,
ticktack,
tick-tack-toe,
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Words related to tick off
agitate,
bore,
bother,
displease,
disturb,
exasperate,
fire up,
gall,
irk,
peeve,
perturb,
rile,
trouble,
turn off,
vex,
worry,
admonish,
berate,
blame,
castigate How to use tick off in a sentence
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
“The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.
Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.
Other Idioms and Phrases with tick off
Infuriate, make angry. For example, That article ticked me off. [Colloquial; second half of 1900s] For a vulgar synonym, see piss off.
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