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  • noun Plural form of tickler.

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Examples

  • "Did you tell me, Gusterson, that everybody was quiet and abstracted and orderly down below, especially the ones wearing ticklers, meaning pretty much everybody?"

    The Creature from Cleveland Depths Fritz Leiber 1951

  • To hold a carnival such as New Orleans holds, a city must know how to be lively and playful without becoming drunk, without breaking barroom mirrors, upsetting tables, annoying women, thrusting "ticklers" into people's faces, jostling, fighting, committing the thousand rough vulgar excesses in which New York indulges every New Year's Eve, and in which it would indulge to an even more disgusting extent under the additional license of the mask.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • People with horns, and bells, and all manner of noise-making devices, with confetti and "ticklers" pushed up on one side of

    The Ear in the Wall 1908

  • With championship cycling no longer associated with France, it's not enough for the French to just be known for "ticklers," fancy toast, and a cartoon skunk.

    Sports Central | Articles and Columns 2009

  • Casual ivory-ticklers can play along using just five keys; Elton John wannabes can learn to use all 25.

    Rock Band 3 REVIEW: New Game Hits All The Right Notes AP 2010

  • There is a whole separate class of software products with names like workflow management or business process management which are focused on how facts flow between people and what happens when flows are interrupted (e.g. ticklers & follow-ups).

    Tickler Systems and Thoughts on Mandating the EMR aka TBTAM 2009

  • Most existing EMR systems are a combination of data collection and storage (the facts) and the workflows associated with these facts (e.g the follow-ups, ticklers etc.).

    Tickler Systems and Thoughts on Mandating the EMR aka TBTAM 2009

  • What about using your email inbox for the ticklers and setting up a separate folder that has the radiology scan results, and another for those "problem" patients that you are trying to track?

    Vitamin D Reduces Fractures aka TBTAM 2009

  • The big puzzle for me that I only see ticklers bashing Hillary or Obama.

    Exit Polls: Clinton runs the board in Kentucky 2008

  • He'd come on with a towel over his arm and a tray bearing Harold and his tacky attachments French ticklers and various bizarre toys surrounded by four large brandies.

    ɘloЯ 2010

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