tick-tock

Etymology
Onomatopoeia based on.

Translations

 * Catalan: tic tac
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: tiktako
 * Finnish: tik-tak, tik tak
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: tic tac, tictac
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: tatetate
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, tic tac, tic-tac
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

 * 1) To make continual clicking sounds like those of an analog clock; to tick.
 * 2) When marching, to swing arms and legs on the same side at the same time.
 * 1) When marching, to swing arms and legs on the same side at the same time.

Translations

 * Esperanto: tiktaki
 * French:
 * German:
 * Russian:, тикают
 * Spanish: tictaquear

Noun

 * 1) The sound of a ticking clock.
 * 2)  A step-by-step account of an event or timeline.
 * 3) * 2020: "|It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify 'Reopening' the Economy" by Jordan Weissmann on Slate
 * A few days ago, the Washington Post published a long, depressing ticktock of the Trump administration’s execrable attempts to control the coronavirus and “reopen” the country for business, beginning with a shocking but not exactly surprising anecdote about how the president’s economic advisers had abetted the president’s most destructive impulses.
 * A few days ago, the Washington Post published a long, depressing ticktock of the Trump administration’s execrable attempts to control the coronavirus and “reopen” the country for business, beginning with a shocking but not exactly surprising anecdote about how the president’s economic advisers had abetted the president’s most destructive impulses.