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Definition of tiki in English: tikinounPlural tikis ˈtɪkiˈtēkē 1NZ A large wooden or small greenstone image of a human figure. Example sentencesExamples - A throwback to the Polynesian craze that swept North America in the '50s and '60s, the restaurant is full of Eastern Island statuettes, wooden tikis and a Hawaiian ukulele soundtrack.
- Tipi wore a greenstone tiki around her neck that had been passed down through many generations.
- When we see people wearing greenstone tiki or bones around their necks, we can laugh, but that is a way of giving the culture a status that means that it will actually survive.
- No, what he felt for was the little smooth object sewn at the back of his silver fern, a greenstone tiki presented by the Maori people of Hawera.
2as modifier Denoting something that is imitative of objects or customs associated with the tropical islands of the South Pacific. Example sentencesExamples - The handmade felt scraps and plastic tiki brooches that my amazing friend liz helped me sew the night before sold for $8 each.
- A collection of remixed tiki exotica really gets you straddling both sides of the fence.
- If you didn't make it out this weekend you have not seen the new stairway to the tiki bar.
- At the Greenhouse tiki bar four rugged guys were talking about Harleys.
- Howard Shore creates a score that's wonderfully evocative of the 1950s, part sci-fi drive-in, part tiki lounge.
- In a thrift store I saw a tiki mug marked " Harvey's Sneaky Tiki, Lake Tahoe ".
- They look a bit like Hawaiian tiki lamps, which is not a bad association since they are installed right near the beach.
- They're always pushing cocktail culture on people, be it 30s style martini shakers, tiki culture, bachelor-pad barware.
- Most of today's tiki artists grew up in the shadow of tiki culture, surrounded by Polynesian-style apartments, hotels, restaurants and bars.
- Add a few torches and now your tiki parties can be nearly authentic.
- Lao Bay was an entertaining circus of activity the day we stopped in, with busloads of windsurfers camped out under tiki huts or on the white sand beach.
- Phoenix, Arizona even had a tiki motel, called the Kon Tiki.
- Back on the mainland, any travelling I did became a pretext for my on-going tiki bar pilgrimage.
- I think that I will build a tiki bar.
- The little kitsch Hawaii tiki milk jug from a garage sale for $1 last year.
- There are huge marinas and outdoor "tiki bars" and gourmet restaurants galore.
- I made my own little tiki ornaments and instead of tinsel I used leis. "
- At the end of a gravel and asphalt yard is a tiki bar and a grill made from half an oil drum.
- When I came back a year later, the tiki was no longer there.
- Pete Moruzzi, a computer sales executive, built a tiki bar in his Southern California home in 1994.
Origin Maori, literally 'image'. sense 2 represents an independent development, which first became widespread in the mid 20th century in the US tourist industry. Rhymes beaky, cheeky, cliquey, cock-a-leekie, creaky, freaky, Geikie, Kon-Tiki, Leakey, leaky, peaky, reeky, sleeky, sneaky, squeaky, streaky, Thessaloníki, tzatziki Definition of tiki in US English: tikinounˈtēkē NZ A large wooden or small greenstone image of a human figure. Example sentencesExamples - Tipi wore a greenstone tiki around her neck that had been passed down through many generations.
- When we see people wearing greenstone tiki or bones around their necks, we can laugh, but that is a way of giving the culture a status that means that it will actually survive.
- No, what he felt for was the little smooth object sewn at the back of his silver fern, a greenstone tiki presented by the Maori people of Hawera.
- A throwback to the Polynesian craze that swept North America in the '50s and '60s, the restaurant is full of Eastern Island statuettes, wooden tikis and a Hawaiian ukulele soundtrack.
Origin Maori, literally ‘image’. tiki (sense 2 of the noun) represents an independent development, which first became widespread in the mid 20th century in the US tourist industry. |