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tick-tacker
a person who practises tick-tack AUSTRALIA, 1897- — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 105, 1965
- In the old days, tick-tackers used to signal changes in the markets between bookmakers in different enclosures and runners were employed to carry the odds. They had an elaborate series of handsignals. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 86, 1975
- — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 28, 1982
- In Sydney, the acknowledged king of the tick-tackers operated for a Leger bookmaker. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 198, 1982
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