Tic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities.
  • verb-intransitive. To have a tic; produce tics.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles.
  • n. Shortened form of ticket
  • v. To exhibit a tic; to undergo convulsive muscle movements.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A habitual spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, especially of the face; twitching; vellication: especially applied to tic-douloureux, or facial neuralgia. See tic-douloureux.
  • n. An African beefeater or ox-pecker; an ox-bird. See cuts under Buphaga and Textor.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a local and habitual twitching especially in the face
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    twitch    twitching    vellication   
    Variant
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    twitching    velication   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crick    Dick    Frick    Hick    Mick    Nic    Nick    Rick    Slick    Stick   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    snick    toc