Idiom
tick tack
SlangCockney rhyming slang
Meaning
the track
Examples
“The horses run fast around the tick tack.”
“He spends every Saturday morning at the tick tack watching the local athletes practice their sprints.”
“The veteran trainer stood quietly by the fence, observing how the young horse handled the curves of the tick tack during its first morning run.”
Examples
simple
“The horses run fast around the tick tack.”
contextual
“He spends every Saturday morning at the tick tack watching the local athletes practice their sprints.”
complex
“The veteran trainer stood quietly by the fence, observing how the young horse handled the curves of the tick tack during its first morning run.”
Origin
A horse racing term relating to the "tic tac" signals made by bookmakers.
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