tick past
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tick past (third-person singular simple present ticks past, present participle ticking past, simple past and past participle ticked past)
- (intransitive or transitive, of events, time or time-keeping devices) To continue over time.
- The years just continue to tick past.
- The bad election results kept coming in, ticking past me one by one on the bottom of the television screen.
- 2008, Nick Cave (lyrics and music), “Albert Goes West”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
- Me, I ain't going anywhere / Just sit and watch the sun come up, I like it here / Oh yeah, I watch the people go ticking past