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▪ I. † ˈticker1 Obs. rare.
[f. tick v.3 + -er1.]
A cribbing horse, a crib-biter.
1720[see tick v.3]. 1796Lawrence Treat. Horses iv. 218 The crib-biter, formerly called a ticker... These horses will stand biting at the rack, or manger, or even at a post, throwing themselves backward, and sucking in the air with greediness.
▪ II. ˈticker2 slang. ? Obs.
[? f. tick v.2 + -er1.]
? One who obtains goods ‘on tick’ and never pays for them; a fraudulent debtor.
1753(title) The Thief-Catcher..Containing an ample Discovery of the..Frauds now practised by Highwaymen, Tickers, Gypsies, Horse-stealers [etc.].
▪ III. ticker3|ˈtɪkə(r)|
[f. tick v.1 + -er1.]
1. Something that ticks.
a. The pendulum or escapement of a clock or watch; also (slang) a watch (rarely, as in quot. 1910, a clock).
1821P. Egan Boxiana III. 622 To nail the ticker..or to mill the cly. 1828[Moir] Mansie Wauch xxv. (1849) 204 Went to and fro like the ticker of a clock. 1829Maginn in Mem. Vidocq IV. App. 261 Then his ticker I set a-going, With his onions, chain, and key. 1838Dickens O. Twist xviii, If you don't take fogles and tickers..some other cove will. 1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch xxviii, I've sold all my jewels down to my ticker. 1910Contemp. Rev. July 36 Secreting a copy of Keats behind the ticker.
b. A telegraphic recording instrument, a tape-machine; a stock-indicator.
1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius (1892) 173 A couple of wheels that unwound..long strips of white paper..covered with unintelligible signs. ‘That is the ticker’, said Barker; and he explained how every variation in the market was instantly transmitted to every place of business..in New York. Ibid. 174 ‘It [the ticker] is the pulse of New York’, said Barker... ‘It tells us everything. Nobody can live here without a ticker’. 1889Pall Mall G. 22 Jan. 7/2 In New York..news agency ‘tickers’, messenger calls, private as well as public telephones, burglar and fire alarms,..are to be found in all well appointed offices. 1896Proc. N. Eng. Hist. Genealog. Soc. 158 With Edison in 1870 he [F. L. Pope] invented the one-wire printing telegraph or ‘ticker’. 1902Munsey's Mag. XXVI. 542/2 Stock and general news tickers..reporting bad news.
c. slang (orig. U.S.). The heart; also U.S. and Austral., courage, spirit, ‘guts’. Cf. heart n. 11.
1930J. Tait Big House 7 Because the heart is a ‘ticker’. 1935D. Runyon Money from Home 87, I never see a guy with more ticker than Shamus. 1950Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 149/1 Then I leapt to my feet, and the sight that met my eyes made the old ticker miss more beats than it had done when Martin clamped his gun on the back of my neck. 1979Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 4 Nov. 54/1 The lady has ticker... She didn't opt for the soft life. 1980J. Cartwright Horse of Darius viii. 106 Put something at the bottom about your heart. Say, ‘The ticker seems to be a little dodgy at the moment.’
2. Someone who ticks off items in a list, etc.; spec. = twitcher 4.
1980Guardian 25 June 12/5 ‘Twitchers’ or ‘tickers’—the serious ornithologists' somewhat disparaging term for those bird watchers whose main interest in their hobby is adding new species to their lists. 1982Birds Spring 70/2 Bird tickers contribute little to the well being of the environment and often do little but disturb it.
3. Special Comb.: ticker tape, the paper strip on which telegraphic messages are recorded in a tape-machine; this or similar paper material thrown from windows as a form of greeting for a celebrity; also attrib.
1902H. L. Wilson Spenders 407 For two days he clung to the ticker tape as to a life line. 1957Listener 10 Oct. 556/1 A traditional ticker-tape reception is to be accorded. 1972D. E. Westlake Cops & Robbers (1973) x. 135 The Wall Street ticker-tape parade is a tradition. 1976H. Wilson Governance of Britain iii. 51 On the afternoon of the second day, the ticker-tape carried a story that President Truman had said that General MacArthur, supreme commander in Korea, had the authority to use the nuclear weapon there, without reference to the President. 1980L. St. Clair Obsessions ii. 48 Tomorrow's ticker-tape welcome to Commander Richard E. Byrd. |