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Ticky Tack.
This is the dumbest misused word by football announcers and fans. Seems to me it must have been used by someone who meant to say nit-picky or something and it stuck...because nowhere does the word ticky tacky have relevance to an official making a lame call.
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This is the dumbest misused word by football announcers and fans. Seems to me it must have been used by someone who meant to say nit-picky or something and it stuck...because nowhere does the word ticky tacky have relevance to an official making a lame call.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ticky-tacky" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ticky-tacky</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ticky-tackhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ticky-tacky" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ ... icky-tacky</a>