Crossword-Solution: TICK 4 letters, 134 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Tick	n.	Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.
Tick	v. i.	To go on trust, or credit.
Tick	v. i.	To give tick; to trust.
Tick	n.	Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.
Tick	n.	Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).
Tick	n.	The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.
Tick	n.	Ticking. See Ticking, n.
Tick	v. i.	To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.
Tick	v. i.	To strike gently; to pat.
Tick	n.	A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.
Tick	n.	Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.
Tick	n.	The whinchat; -- so called from its note.
Tick	v. t.	To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.

We have 134 clues for the answer “TICK”

Clue	Answers
"60 Minutes" sound	1 answer
"60 Minutes" sound effect	1 answer
Small bloodsucking arachnid	1 answer
A measure of the clock.	1 answer
A moment or instant.	1 answer
Auditor's mark	1 answer
Biting arachnid	1 answer
Bloodsucking arachnid	1 answer
Bug on a hiker	1 answer
CHECKMARK	1 answer
Camping menace	1 answer
Chide, with "off"	1 answer
Clock action	1 answer
Clock click	1 answer
Clock's noise	1 answer
Clock's sound	1 answer
Crude mattress	1 answer
Cuckoo clock sound	1 answer
Dog's worst enemy	1 answer
Eight-legged parasite	1 answer
Father Time sound	1 answer
First sound of work	1 answer
Go like clockwork	1 answer
Insomniac's problem, maybe	1 answer
KED	1 answer
Lyme disease spreader	1 answer
MAKE slight quick sound	1 answer
MARK as correct	1 answer
MATTRESS case	1 answer
Mark of work done	1 answer
Mark, as a correct answer	1 answer
Mite's cousin	1 answer
One might be attached to a Lab	1 answer
One of the sounds of time	1 answer
Parasite of deer	1 answer
Parasitic bug avoided by tucking pant legs into socks (though you look like a total nerd, so trade-offs)	1 answer
Peeve, with "off"	1 answer
Mark made when selecting something	1 answer
Tiny bloodsucker often found on pets	1 answer
Second indicator?	1 answer
Short space of time: Colloq.	1 answer
Sound effect during a bomb defusing, perhaps	1 answer
Sound from a timepiece, maybe	1 answer
Sound in a fob	1 answer
Sound of a clock	1 answer
Sound of a second hand	1 answer
Sound of a time machine	1 answer
Sound of a watch	1 answer
Stock price movement	1 answer
Stopwatch noise	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETARE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TICK (5)

Without giving a thought to what might be the feelings of a fellow-creature thus abruptly deprived of its closest companion, Peter began to consider how he could turn the catastrophe to his own use; and he decided to tick, so that wild beasts should believe he was the crocodile and let him pass unmolested.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Rare: backprime; [backspark]; unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; ; quasiquote.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Say—what’s that?” “Nothing but a tick.” “Where’d you get him?” “Out in the woods.” “What’ll you take for him?” “I don’t know.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

They took and shoved the bag through a rip in the straw tick that was under the feather-bed, and crammed it in a foot or two amongst the straw and said it was all right now, because a nigger only makes up the feather-bed, and don’t turn over the straw tick only about twice a year, and so it warn’t in no danger of getting stole now.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

What is the hour? Ah! the watch has at last ceased to tick; for the Judge’s forgetful fingers neglected to wind it up, as usual, at ten o’clock, being half an hour or so before his ordinary bedtime,—and it has run down, for the first time in five years.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with TICK (3)

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Alan W. Watts

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany. Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

Terry Pratchett

Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be given? Only time will tell as the clock keeps tick, tick, ticking. Your god has arrived with enough hatred for y’all, with enough evil for the big and small, so come one, come all. I will shred your souls and place them in my satchel, call you a settler and make you my peddler. Come one, come all, come stand behind your god. I will lead you into the darkness of Eart…

A.K. Kuykendall The Possession

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 109 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).