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    tickety-boo
    /ˌtɪkɪtɪˈbuː/

    adjective

    • 1. in good order; fine: informal, dated British "everything is tickety-boo"

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  2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › tickety-booTickety-boo Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of TICKETY-BOO is fine, okay. How to use tickety-boo in a sentence.

  3. wordhistories.net › 2020/11/03 › tickety-boo‘tickety-boo’: meaning, early occurrences and origin

    Nov 3, 2020 · MEANING OF TICKETY-BOO. Used predicatively, the old-fashioned informal British-English adjective tickety-boo means as it should be, correct, satisfactory.

  4. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishTICKETY-BOO definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    adjective. British old-fashioned, informal. as it should be; correct; satisfactory. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C20: of obscure origin. tickety-boo in American English. (ˈtɪkɪtiˈbuː) adjective. chiefly Brit informal. fine; OK. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.

  5. en.wiktionary.org › wiki › tickety-bootickety-boo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

    Jul 2, 2024 · Chiefly and originally British slang. Possibly from an Indo-Aryan language: compare Hindi ठीक है, बाबू (ṭhīk hai, bābū, “it's all right, sir”). The phrase could have been picked up by British personnel in India before independence and spread in modified form to the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the Commonwealth.

  6. www.dictionary.com › browse › tickety-booTICKETY-BOO Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    Tickety-boo definition: all right; fine; OK. . See examples of TICKETY-BOO used in a sentence.

  7. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › english › tickety-bootickety-boo - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

    Definition of tickety-boo adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  8. www.phrases.org.uk › meanings › tickety-booTickety-boo - Meaning & Origin Of The Phrase - Phrasefinder

    What's the meaning of the phrase 'Tickety-boo'? Delighted. What's the origin of the phrase 'Tickety-boo'? The tickling here isn’t the light stroking of the skin – it’s the figurative sense of the word that means ‘to give pleasure or gratify’.