Green’s Dictionary of Slang

sexual intercourse.

c.1550		R. Wever Lusty Juventus Diiii: What a hurly-burly is here Smicke smacke and all this geare, You would to ticke tacke I feare If you had tyme.
1594		Lyly Mother Bombie V iii: At laugh and lie down, if they play, What Asse against the sport can bray? Such Tick-tacke has held many a day.
1603		Shakespeare Measure for Measure I ii: For the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack.
1617		Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 239: Thy Wife plaies false ... With thee at Tick-tack.
c.1638		R. Brome Mad Couple V ii: You had a thin chin’d husband, plaid at Doublets with ye, And that perhaps, but twise or thrice a weeke, You are incapable of better Game, Here’s one shall hold me Tick tack night by night.
1641		J. Johnson Academy of Love 101: If the men adventure against the women at tick-tack, they are certaine to lose all they play for, and if the men lose all, then the women desire them to play at Passage amongst themselves.
1660		Wandring Whore I 9: The Lock hangs fastened under their smocks neer the groin of the back, and never opened but when her husband hath a mind to play a game at Tick-tack. [Ibid.] 13: A Gentleman got her upon his knee, and plaid a game at Tick-tack, on one side of the table before her husbands face, without being discovered.
1673		‘Letter from a Missionary Bawd’ in Carpenter Verse in English from Tudor & Stuart Eng. (2003) 424: Sir William Talbot for her cully marks; / She at ticktack him often entertaines, / And through that spunge his Masters Guineys draines.
c.1680		‘Mars and Venus’ in Pepys Ballads (1987) III 234: Tick Track is a gallant sport, And on these terms I’le yield the fort.
1696		Character of the Beaux 18: He walks to some Lady’s Lodgings in Pell-Mell, or St. James’s-Square; where he spends three or four Hours at Ombre, or Ticktack, and so Home again.
a.1700		‘Female Doctress’ in Pepys Ballads (1987) V 417: Take but my Elixir fairly, You shall do Trick a Track most rarely.
1700		N. Ward Rambling Rakes 12: A whole days Play at Tick-Tack.
1734		C. Johnson Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 436: He being dispos’d to have a Game at Tricke-Tracke with her.