ticktack


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ticktack

Brit a system of sign language, mainly using the hands, by which bookmakers transmit their odds to each other at racecourses
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It was his father who said to me that they thought the amateurs was now a game of ticktack over four two-minute rounds.
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As the tweed tipster gave Channel 4 viewers the old ticktack at Cheltenham he failed to notice a long shot coming up on the outside.
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