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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: TACKY2

ticky-tacky

 adjective
     
tick‧y-tack‧y also ticky-tack American English informal
ticky-tacky houses, buildings etc are made of material that is cheap and of low quality
—ticky-tacky noun [uncountable]
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