English Explanatory Dictionary

make tick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To cause someone or something to operate the way it does.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, tick.

Word forms

make tick makes tick making tick made tick

Etymology

An allusion to the workings of a clock making it operate with a ticking noise.

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