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ricky-ticky; ricky-tick
adjective
used of a jazz rhythm, old-fashioned, even, boring US, 1952- [H]e had blown complex and minor in the midst of vulgar stomping swing bands, jitterbugs and ricky-ticky-too[.] — John Clellon Holmes, The Horn, p. 87, 1958
- [W]hat lifts Tiny Tim miles above the nostalgia, the rickey-tick[.] — Albert Goldman, Freak Show, p. 116, 1968
- That ole ricky-tick? That ain’t even worth listen to. Ole ricky-tick like that. — Terry Southern, Texas Summer, p. 151, 1991
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