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Definition of tickey in English: tickeynounPlural tickeysˈtɪkiː South African informal A small silver threepenny piece, withdrawn from circulation in 1961. Example sentencesExamples - He had a projector in his room at home and, turning his bedroom into a cinema, he charged his sisters a tickey to watch a movie.
- In 1949 the fare increased to a tickey (three pennies), and there was a riot.
- The meters have universal slots which allow the use of tickeys, sixpences and shillings.
- The ‘tickey’ might become a quarter-shilling, but existing names, though incongruous, would probably linger.
- One day she heard him telling the servant to go to the fresh produce market and ‘buy a tickey's worth of mixed fruit, but not too many watermelons!’
Synonyms very small sum, pittance, trifle, trifling sum, drop in the ocean, insignificant sum, derisory sum, paltry sum
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