tickle
verb (used with object)
to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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Car, Smothers and Jeannie are only three of the 18 new shows that will be tickling the ribs of laugh machines next year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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