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ticky-tacky
adj 2noun 1
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3ADJ.
all, little, true
VERB + TICKY-TACKY
boxes, come, made
TICKY-TACKY + NOUN
complexes
Definitions
noun
1
Cheap, low-quality building material, especially as that used to make conventional suburban housing of a uniform design.
And the boys go into business, and marry and raise a family / In boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.
adj
1
Made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality.
My first impression was that Phoenix was another American Dream (a la L.A.) come true—ticky-tacky tract housing complexes and mini-malls stretching boundlessly into the flat desert horizon.
2
Inferior, minor, trivial.
It almost seems that major discipline problems take care of themselves; it is the day-to-day little ticky-tacky issues that bind and scratch and itch until you find that you are boxed in with a class that you can no longer control.
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And the boys go into business, and marry and raise a family / In boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.
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My first impression was that Phoenix was another American Dream (a la L.A.) come true—ticky-tacky tract housing complexes and mini-malls stretching boundlessly into the flat desert horizon.
Wiktionary03
It almost seems that major discipline problems take care of themselves; it is the day-to-day little ticky-tacky issues that bind and scratch and itch until you find that you are boxed in with a class
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