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ticker
noun- a clock, especially a pocket watch US
- Joe, you have a short, some fronts, and a fine ticker too. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 91, 1964
- A Elgin ticker with a solid gold band/ And a egg-sized diamond flashed on his hand. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 31, 1976
- the heart US, 1930
Analogised to a clock ticking. - [W]hen you get high off of gauge it dries up the saliva in your mouth and your stomach fills up with gas and presses against your ticker, till for the first time in your life you feel every beat your heart is making without looking for it. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 95, 1946
- To ventilate your foul ticker if I parted Junior’s crew cut. — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- Lee wasn’t a young man any more, a thing like that could raise a lot of hell with a guy’s ticker. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 68, 1951
- With his cigarette hand, Selena’s brother tapped the left side of his chest. “Ticker,” he said. — J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories, p. 48, 1953
- If I have a bum ticker, you can bet it comers from liquor. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 37, 1959
- My ticker rioted. A delicious stealing lust electrified my genitals. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 27, 1979
- That got the old ticker going. — Ask, p. 112, 12 April 1980
- Considering, you know, the old ticker isn’t what it used to be. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 362, 1987
- Bustin’ their dodgy fuckin’ tickers for nothin’. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 17, 1997
- courage AUSTRALIA, 1977
- — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 143, 1974
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 89, 1977
- I knew you dagos had no ticker. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 121, 1988
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