tick off
verb
ticked off; ticking off; ticks off
1
: to make angry or indignant
the cancellation really ticked me off
Examples of tick off in a Sentence
she royally ticked the babysitter off for letting the child play outside unsupervised
it really ticks me off when someone says something like that
Recent Examples on the Web
Florida, as usual. I’m ticked off at the stupid ads USAA uses with Gronkowski.
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Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2025
Many others were debating which items would be the easiest to tick off.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Society gets pretty ticked off when generative AI suddenly tells how to do evil acts.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Sitting behind the Resolute Desk for the prime time address, Biden ticked off his work in office jump-starting the U.S. economy after the pandemic, boosting American manufacturing, creating millions of jobs, and trying to steer the country’s industrial sector away from fossil fuels.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2025
Many others were debating which items would be the easiest to tick off.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Society gets pretty ticked off when generative AI suddenly tells how to do evil acts.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Sitting behind the Resolute Desk for the prime time address, Biden ticked off his work in office jump-starting the U.S. economy after the pandemic, boosting American manufacturing, creating millions of jobs, and trying to steer the country’s industrial sector away from fossil fuels.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Tick off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tick%20off. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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