tick n.2
1. an unpleasant, insignificant person, usu. male.
![]() | The Swisser II i: Yee nigling Ticks you! | |
![]() | Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 24: The most boring of all animals is what is called a Tick, one who will stick closer than a brother. | |
![]() | Mike & Psmith [ebook] ‘[W]e’ve got a chance of getting a jolly good bit of our own back against those Downing's ticks?’. | |
![]() | Lighter Side of School Life 178: Great Scott, how should I know all the rotten little ticks in the Lower School? | |
![]() | Clicking of Cuthbert 124: Oh, well, a tick’s a tick, and there’s nothing more to say. | |
![]() | Spring in Tartarus 335: Listen, you blackmailing little tick. | |
![]() | Among You Taking Notes 26 Oct. 98: The chairman [...] is Bruce who was Editor of the Glasgow Herald a long time ago, and was a tick then. | |
![]() | Complete Molesworth (1985) 10: Until we are called on to tough up a few junior ticks. | |
![]() | Billy Bunter at Butlins 55: Look here, you cheeky little ticks. | |
![]() | Geronimo Rex 265: I wanted to reclaim myself from being the tick I was that night with her. | |
![]() | Southern Discomfort (1983) 141: This prohibition victory puffs him up, the tick. | |
![]() | Observer Rev. 20 June 4: That tick Johnny Depp greeting you insouciantly with a ‘Hey Rich.’. | |
![]() | Guardian CiF 11 June 🌐 There are too many people here who will apparently defend this tick [i.e. D. Trump] no matter what. |
2. (US campus) an overweight person.
![]() | AS L:1/2 68: tick n 1: Overweight person. | ‘Razorback Sl.’ in|
![]() | Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1998) 211: A couple of big, fat ticks, corruption oozing from every pore. |
3. (US campus) a greedy or selfish person.
![]() | AS L:1/2 68: tick n [...] 2: One who is greedy or selfish. | ‘Razorback Sl.’ in|
![]() | Rhyme Stew (1990) 57: That Hansel! Cripes, that little tick! / To watch him eat, it makes me sick! |