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tock

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • Canada//tɑk//

A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.

noun

  1. 1

    A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.

    When Cyrus left her there by herself she stood quite still and listened to the sounds, a variety of ticks and tocks, faint beats and flutters.

verb

  1. 1

    To produce such a sound.

    The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.

    The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.

Forms

plural
tocks
past tense
tocked
past participle
tocked
present participle
tocking
third person singular
tocks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).