ticktock

[George Thompson]

New York Times, February 19, 2009, section A, p. 21, profile of Lawrence Summers:

As to whether he backed Mr. Geithner's decision to introduce the bank bailout plan before arriving at specifics, Mr. Summers, well schooled in Washington's ways, invoked newspaper slang for behind-the-scenes tales.

"I just don't do ticktock," he said flatly.

This sense is not in the OED nor in the 2005 edition of the Cassell Slang Dictionary.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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