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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[See

to beat, to pat, and (for sense 2) cf.

A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.

A game at

ticktack

with words.

Milton.

adv.

With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.

Noun.

A game at tables.

See also: tick tack

ticktack

Dated form of tick tock.
- 1852, Northern Mythology: Volume 3 (page 206)
  A wild young fellow coming home late one night, heard, while he was putting the key into the lock, something on the ground that continually went ticktack, ticktack, ticktack. Stooping down he found it was a silver watch […]
- 1901, George Brown, The House With the Green Shutters
  Damn the thing, why didn't it stop – with its monotonous ticktack; ticktack; ticktack – he could feel it inside his head where it seemed to strike innumerable little blows, on a strained chord it was bent on snapping.

ticktack ‎(plural ticktacks)

A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs; tricktrack.
- Milton
  A game at ticktack with words.