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tick off

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.03 sec.
tick someone off
to make someone angry. That really ticks me off! Doesn't that tick off everyone?
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tick somebody off (spoken) also tick off somebody
to make someone angry It just ticks me off to think that anyone who wants to can read my e-mail. It was only a suggestion, not a criticism, and she didn't think it would tick off everyone at the meeting.
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tick off something also tick something off

to name a list of things She ticked off six reasons for saying no. She had lots of objections, and she ticked them off one after another.
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"First of all," began Margaret, "we must make a list and tick off the people's names.
 
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