ticker
/ˈtɪkə
/noun
1 informal A watch.The club's annual Christmas Fair will take place in the Castlecourt Hotel on the 2nd December and tickers will be on sale at €10....
- The ticker works perfectly well, telling the time in the normal way - except that the second hand runs backwards.
1.1A person’s heart.The build up of waste in his body would have caused heart failure (given he has a dicky ticker anyway)....
- And the heart people say aspirin is awfully good for the old ticker.
- The interesting question now is this: has Mr Howard got the ticker?
2North American A telegraphic or electronic machine that prints out data on a strip of paper, especially stock market information or news reports.The network quickly switched to an all-service format showing phone numbers and Red Cross information over the ticker instead of prices....
- Companies could sell subscriptions and place ads inside customized traffic information, weather reports, or sports tickers.
- Demonstrators gathered in a drenching rain under the neon news ticker that carried reports of the latest bombings and troop movements.
2.1 another term for news ticker.
