ricky-tick

Definitions

Examples

• She actually had never been to a Deer Tick show before, but she liked it a lot.

• So we picked out the song (“Rhiannon,” click here for video), and Deer Tick learned it.

• Ricky Gervais, the sultan of scorn, uttered that cheeky bit while emceeing the Golden Globes ceremony a few years back.

• Ricky Jackson is the longest-serving person in U.S. history to be freed.

• Ricky was very influenced by This Is Spinal Tap, and I was always a fan of Woody Allen movies.

• “The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.

• Ive run a steam laundry in Porto Ricky and had the whole danged business washed away in a hurricane.

• “Seems more cheerful like,” observed the caretaker, as the steady tick-tack began to sound through the quiet room.

• Some animals, like the rhino and the eland, have tick birds that sit upon their backs and eat the ticks.

• Often, for a variety in the lessons, she had to go to the baker without money; then her master simply gave the order, ‘on tick!’