tikam-tikam

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of lucky draw or lottery-like game popular throughout the 1950s to the 1970s; usually, prizes are won by pulling slips of paper or numbered tickets from a board. Malaysia,Singapore,uncountable
    — Because school children were forgoing food to play tikam-tikam games with their pocket money, hawkers were eventually banned from selling tikam-tikam to children.
动词 v.
  1. To choose (something) at random. Manglish,Singlish,invariable
    — They cannot complain. Tikam-tikam means, play with chance. Sometimes win, sometimes lose.
形容词 adj.
  1. Arbitrarily chosen; characterized by random choices. Manglish,Singlish,not-comparable
    — it's open secret that finance industry is all tikam tikam one.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
Unadapted borrowing from Malay tikam-tikam lit. “to stab repeatedly; knife game” from reduplication of tikam “to stab”.
词源 2
Unadapted borrowing from Malay tikam-tikam lit. “to stab repeatedly; knife game” from reduplication of tikam “to stab”.
词源 3
Unadapted borrowing from Malay tikam-tikam lit. “to stab repeatedly; knife game” from reduplication of tikam “to stab”.
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