tick off
English
Verb
tick off (third-person singular simple present ticks off, present participle ticking off, simple past and past participle ticked off)
- (sometimes methaphorical) To sign with a tick.
- I ticked off Harry today because he announced he was present.
- I ticked three things off the list in my head, and had only four chores left to do.
- 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 53:
- A decade ago, I was a backpacker entirely reliant on the railways as a means to see Britain, and with castles as my destination. Via trains alone, I was able to tick off nearly all of the castles that my English Heritage annual pass afforded me.
- To list (create or recite a list).
- 2010, David A. Powell, Failure in the Saddle, Savas Beatie, →ISBN, page 68:
- In a lengthy missive dispatched the next afternoon, Wheeler ticked off a laundry list of reasons why he could not obey Bragg's order.
- (Canada, US, transitive) To annoy, aggravate.
- It really ticks me off when people don't use proper punctuation.
- (British, Australia, transitive) To reprimand.
- Fred was ticked off by the teacher for playing around in class.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed[1]:
- Having ticked us off in this way, the rascal had an elaborate description of rails at the pit mouth, and of a zigzag excavation by which funicular trains were to burrow into the earth.
Synonyms
- (list): enumerate, recite; see also Thesaurus:tick off
- (annoy): bug, irk; see also Thesaurus:annoy
- (reprimand): admonish, tell off; see also Thesaurus:criticize
Translations
to sign with a tick
to list
to annoy, aggravate
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