Citations:ticky-box

Noun: "a checkbox; alternative spelling of ticky box"

 * 1995 — Hilary Moriarty, "Feel free to be brutal in reports", Times Educational Supplement, 11 August 1995:
 * If you force our perceptions of skill and achievement out of the subjective and into the ticky-boxes with numerical labels of national curriculum fame, what do you expect?
 * 2003 — Charles Stross, Rule 34, Berkley (2011), ISBN 9781101516645, page 17:
 * It turns out you left something rather important off your career plan: for example, there's no ticky-box on the diagram for HAVING A LIFE — TASK COMPLETED.
 * 2004 — Sara Bubb, The Insider's Guide to Early Professional Development: Succeed in Your First Five Years As a Teacher, Taylor & Francis e-Library (2004), ISBN 0203416252, page 43:
 * Ninety per cent of the time it is toothless ticky-box bollocks.
 * 2007 — Philip Race, The Lecturer's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching, Routledge (2007), ISBN 0415403820, page 199:
 * This sort of structure helps overcome the 'ticky-box' syndrome, as it causes students to think more deeply about issues.
 * 2008 — Judy Robertson, Lisa Gjedde, Ruth Aylett, Rose Luckin, & Paul Brna, "Jerome and Chris plan a study", in Inside Stories: A Narrative Journey, NILE Press (2008), ISBN 9780955981708, page 103:
 * "I would like to do some research in my class. I mean beyond the ticky-box forms I have to fill in.

Noun: "(South Africa, slang) a payphone; alternative spelling of ticky box"

 * 1991 — Jeremy Bankin, Striking Back: A History of Cosatu, Raven Press (1991), ISBN 9780869754108, page 137:
 * Management complained of their contact with unionists being limited to 'ticky-box' public-phone calls.
 * 2010 — Conrad K, In the Shadow of the Tokolosh, Silverling Inspired Publishing (2010), ISBN 9780956561411, page 269:
 * After the ticky-box incident, she panicked and called Jardine, who'd reassured her that Wrex was fine and a troopie from Brady would be out on the 27th to check on them.