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ticky-tacky

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tick·y-tack·y  (tk-tk)
n.
Shoddy material, as for the construction of standardized housing.
adj.
1. Made of shoddy material; cheaply built.
2.
a. Marked by a mediocre uniformity of appearance or style: ticky-tacky rows of look-alike houses.
b. Tawdry; tacky.
[Reduplication of tacky.]
Translations
ticky-tacky (US inf)
adj house, hotel → heruntergekommen
n no pl (= building material) → minderwertiges Baumaterial; (= goods) → Schund m, → Ramsch m (inf)
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