Tick
//tɪk//
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The word "tick" can be used as noun and verb.
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Australian paralysis tick Indian tick typhus Kenya tick typhus armchair tick bat tick birdcatcher tick black-legged tick blood tick blue tick box-ticking castor bean tick cattle tick clock is ticking deer tick detick dog tick downtick foul tick full as a tick hard tick kangaroo tick lone star tick longhorned tick make tick northeastern water tick paralysis tick pasture tick seed tick sheep tick soft tick straw tick take a licking and keep on ticking tic-tac-toe tick a lock tick a lot of boxes tick all the boxes tick and flick tick and tie tick and toy tick away tick bean tick bite tick box tick by tick down tick fever tick mark tick meat allergy tick off tick on tick over tick paralysis tick past tick trefoil tick-based tick-bite fever tick-borne tick-borne encephalitis tick-induced meat allergy tick-tack tick-tock tick-trefoil ticker tickicide ticking ticking clock ticking timebomb ticking-off ticking-over ticktacktoe tight as a tick time is ticking to a tick turkey tick uptick water tick wood tick
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.