ricky-tick
佝偻病
Definitions
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- : the mechanical, repetitive style and beat of ragtime or early swing music.
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Also rick·y-tick·y [rik-ee-tik-ee, -tik-ee]. /ˈrɪk iˈtɪk i, -ˌtɪk i/.
- : of or characteristic of such sound or beat.
- : corny or outmoded.
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!’