Tickety Boo

Word TICKETY BOO
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Definitions and meanings of "Tickety Boo"

What do we mean by tickety boo?

Correct, satisfactory.

1. Going smoothly, doing all right. Copacetic. 2. Proceeding quickly. This expression may have originated in Scotland, where it's the title of a popular children's song. A song called "Everything Is Tickety-Boo" was recorded by Danny Kaye as part of the film "Merry Andrew". This expression is heard more often in Canada nowadays. May have originated in the British military. Possibly related to the Hindi expression "tickee babu", meaning "everything's alright, sir". Some people spell it "diggity boo" or "tiggity boo". Urban Dictionary

Correct, okay Urban Dictionary

Everything is okay or everything is fine. Urban Dictionary

West of Scotland phrase covering a range of situations which are to your entire satisfaction because of someone's intervention. Somewhere between "right on" and "thanks pal." Urban Dictionary

A task or project that is to be completed in a quick fashion and/or expeditiously Urban Dictionary

What people in Pittsburgh call a vacuum cleaner. Urban Dictionary

The legendary phrase by Moira Gradwell. Used after a certain action when something is seen as positive for example a distinction on your work is tickety boo Urban Dictionary

Small bottle of WKD, vodka, top it up with orange juice. It turns green. Urban Dictionary

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The word "tickety-boo" in example sentences

Of course, the credit-ratings agencies are the same genii who swore that all the world's banks were tickety-boo The money's free! ❋ Unknown (2011)

Or, as Mr. Smith observed, "If the world was going along tickety-boo, Vice would not be a news source." ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

But the government should not give credence to them by enacting legislation which says that Islam is tickety-boo and thus demanding of our respect. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As for Kyrgyzstan, where things are not exactly tickety-boo either, we are going to do some more urging, though as David Lidington put it: "We have to accept some practical limits to the ability of the UK to put right all the problems mentioned …" You can say that again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It seemed like everytime Colonel Pettygree opened his mouth and declared that everything was going all tickety-boo, something dire would happen to his brigade. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2008)

Well, except for Sean Preston and Jayden James, who had to put up with a slightly crazed woman babbling at them in a made-up language and farting like a spluttery clown-car engine all the time, but for everyone else it was all tickety-boo. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then he uses a cute rhetorical device to claim that because the station discussed by Watts has a larger trend than the corresponding adjusted grid-cell, the adustments made by GISS and CRU are all tickety-boo. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mann argues that using correct centering the “climate signal” simply moves from PC1 to PC4, so as long as you include four or five PCs in the regression stage, everything is tickety-boo. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As Jamie Baker reported in Thursday's Telegram, since the rules allowed it, Rideout thinks the whole idea is just tickety-boo. ❋ Ed Hollett (2007)

I am reasonably sure she thought that a real "dirty war" was just tickety-boo back then. ❋ Ed Hollett (2006)

So we’ve got a bit more guitar music nowadays, it doesn’t mean everything is tickety-boo. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Absolutely a tickety-boo idea,” she replied, stood up on her toes, and kissed him. ❋ Peter David (2003)

Someone whom I just whisk up in my arms at the first sign of trouble and announce, in my best manly basso profundo voice, that everything is going to be just tickety-boo. ❋ Peter David (2003)

Not enough grooming done to keep them tickety-boo. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. N 50021032-1 (1968)

BlackBerry maker RIM to face MPs over riot claims @paulcarr's tweets, have vague hunch all is not tickety-boo in Techcrunch's garden. ❋ Josh Halliday (2011)

Returning on the weekend, to me things seemed tickety-boo, on the surface. ❋ JOHN DOYLE (2011)

Housing could go to Ralph Spours - he'd soon have everything tickety-boo. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Everything] is tickety-boo, tickety-boo, tickety-boo... ❋ Jay Young (2005)

That is [just] [tickety-boo]. ❋ Dartistic (2018)

I thought I had lost my [keys], but I found them [and everything] was [tickety boo]. ❋ Donald Currie (2003)

Here's a [tenner]. [Tickety boo]. ❋ John Fergusson (2003)

[You better] get in and out of that store Tickety Boo, I'm NOT [missing] [my game] for this!! ❋ Amisstree (2009)

[Please] [tickety boo] your floors. ❋ Linky (2021)

[Right]! [Everything] is [tickety boo] ❋ Rick Rouse Bouse (2021)

Yo [bar] [dog] [tickety boo]! ❋ Step Lupid (2023)

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