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tick-tacking
noun
an illegal system of sign language used between bookmakers and touts on a racecourse AUSTRALIA, 1899- — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 103, 1965
- Two well known characters were Tick-tacker Tom and Ron the Runner. They worked for Murphy, the bookmaker. But when tick-tacking was banned, they became unemployed and fell on bad times. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 86, 1975
- His main impressions? No tick-tacking compared with the English Derby at Epsom Downs: and the skill of the broadcaster, Joe Brown. — Joe Brown, Just for the Record, p. 58, 1984
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