tic

• IPA^(key): /tɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophone: tick

Borrowed from French tic.

tic (plural tics)

1. (neurology) A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
   • 2020, Andrea E. Cavanna, Pharmacological Treatment of Tics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by multiple tics. A tic is a sudden, rapid, repetitive, non-rhythmic movement (e.g. eye blinking) or vocalization (e.g. throat clearing).

2. (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
   • 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.

tic (third-person singular simple present tics, present participle ticcing, simple past and past participle ticced)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
   • 2020, Andrea E. Cavanna, Pharmacological Treatment of Tics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     Patients often describe the need to tic as the mounting of inner tension, localized either to the body region where the tic is about to occur or throughout the body.

Clipping of ticket.

tic (plural tics)

1. (informal) Clipping of ticket.

• tix

• tic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• CTI, ICT, TCI, cit, cit.

tic

1. work, working
2. job, occupation, profession

tic

1. moist, damp, wet

• Blackings, Mairi John (2009) Acholi English – English Acholi Dictionary‎^[2], Munich: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 122

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtik]

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic

• “tic” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tic”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “tic”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /tik/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: tique

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic

• → English: tic
• → German: Tic
• → Portuguese: tique

• “tic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtik/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Hyphenation: tìc

tic m (invariable)

1. tic, twitch

tic

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of ticēt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of ticēt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of ticēt

tic n (plural ticuri)

1. obsolete form of spic

• tic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈtik/ [ˈt̪ik]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: tic

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic (movement)
2. tick (written mark)
3. tick (sound)

• tictac/tic-tac
• tictaquear

• “tic”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “tic”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Borrowed from French tic. Attested since 1885.

tic n

1. (neurology, chiefly in the plural) a tic
2. (colloquial, figuratively, chiefly in the plural) (unreasonable) compulsory behavior, a tic

• tics in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tics in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tic in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)