ticky box
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See also: ticky-box
English
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[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Etymology 1
[edit]From ticky (“a tick mark”) + box. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Or could be forming an informal adjective tick + -y?”)
Noun
[edit]ticky box (plural ticky boxes)
- (informal) A blank square on a form in which a check mark or cross may be placed in order to indicate a selection.
- 2006, Kay Sambell, Liz McDowell, Alistair Sambell, “Supporting diverse students: developing learner autonomy via assessment”, in Cordelia Bryan, Karen Clegg, editors, Innovative Assessment in Higher Education, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164:
- At college I took a sort of ticky box approach to doing my work. I'd say to myself, right, I've done that, I've measured that, I've read that.
Synonyms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From tickey (“South African threepenny coin”) + box.
Noun
[edit]ticky box (plural ticky boxes)
- (South Africa, slang) A payphone; Alternative spelling of tickey box
- 2008, Paula Nangle, The Leper Compound, Bellevue Literary Press, →ISBN, page 96:
- They were trying to figure out how to call long distance from the ticky box.