tick-tack
n.— «The lads who fondle the ticktack clocks—when most of us are warming feathers—slip me this as the “best sprinter at Coney Island.”» —“Collyer Gives Sprinter Chance” by Bert E. Collyer Washington Post Aug. 6, 1926. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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