ticks

• “The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.”

  Crooks and Liars

• “The former did not quite pull back its full audience yet as it only managed a 1.5 rating in the 18-49 demo which is off three ticks from the 1.8 it has averaged so far.”

  March « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy

• “Peter Oberem received birds three years ago and says he has seen a sharp drop in ticks at his game farm in northern South Africa.”

  The Huffington Post: Operation Oxpecker: Red-Billed Oxpeckers Rediscovered By Cowherds As Natural Debugger, Replacement For Toxic Pesticide Cattle Dips

• “The problem is the same as every other component (cf. computers) on any spacecraft: Once they have flown they don the flame suit of 'flight heritage' and are harder to remove than ticks from a dog.”

  Minor Damage Seen on Atlantis - NASA Watch

• “Fernando is clearly a bright guy, but you basically need someone in the role of party president who has some experience of how the party ticks from the inside.”

  The Presidential ballot

• “If the answer is Obama, then vote for him; if McCain ticks all the boxes (which I doubt), then vote for him.”

  Campaigns reject Bloomberg, ABC offer for televised town hall

• “Sunday Salon and having finished the latest from Peter Carey, His Illegal Self, this morning, I've come over all Hardy-esque in an attempt to shake off the mosquitoes and ticks from the hippie commune in Queensland.”

  Sunday Salon

• “Several years ago we found a sweet, starving dog who was covered in ticks (we literally pulled more than a hundred off of him).”

  Four-Legged Friends Challenge

• “The name ticks off each component one by one, getting longer and longer in the process: Strawberry tart.”

  The Kitchn

• “Time values are measured in 100-nanosecond units called ticks, and a particular date is the number of ticks since 12: 00 midnight, January 1, 0001 A.D.”

  MSDN Blogs

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