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tic
1[ tik ]
noun
- Pathology.
- a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
- a persistent or recurrent behavioral trait; personal quirk:
her distinctive verbal tics.
-tic
2- a suffix, equivalent in meaning to -ic, occurring in adjectives of Greek origin ( analytic ), used especially in the formation of adjectives from nouns with stems in -sis: hematotic; neurotic.
tic
/ tɪk /
noun
- spasmodic twitching of a particular group of muscles
- See tic douloureux
Word History and Origins
Origin of tic1
Word History and Origins
Origin of tic1
Example Sentences
At that point, Mike Myers bursts into the Oval Office as a ball of weird tics meant to represent Musk.
It was psychotic and compulsive, but eventually I started recognizing patterns in his voice and the kind of tics and bits he was doing, and then embodying them.
When he eventually explodes into thinking, delivering a monologue of disordered intellectual half-thoughts and rhetorical tics, the stage convulses in Lewis Carroll absurdity.
Tourette's syndrome is a condition that causes people to make involuntary movements or sounds, called tics.
Many people with Tourette's can suppress their tics for a while, but often describe the experience as exhausting and uncomfortable.
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