Definition of "tic" []

• A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities. (noun)
• To have a tic; produce tics. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Calculations: Customer SLP tic$tic%originalSLPtic% tic* 16tic% = tic$tic%customerSLPtic%. ` n) tic: = Chr (96)"
• "Mr. Carlin's most disturbing tic is a faux-intimate style."
• "My personal tic is the overuse, as you mention, of adverbs and speech descriptors (ask, proposed, acknowledged – etc etc!)"