ticked off
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7.9
- idiom
- /tɪkt ɔf/
- Informal
- She was so ticked off at Clint Eastwood because she felt he had upstaged Romney's excellent acceptance speech and that lovely, touching video tribute to the darling Romney family.
- really ticked off
- pretty ticked off
- so ticked off
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Watch on YouTubeAnd now he's ticked off at them and yells at them.
- And now he's ticked off at them and yells at them.
- Well, you know, if you, if, if you start saying stuff like that in a Christian framework, Christians might get ticked off, right?
Examples
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And now he's ticked off at them and yells at them.
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If you're a journalist and this is happening in your company, you should be ticked off because that's hurting the ability to pay for news, right?
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But what I'm really interested in knowing is, what was it your husband said to you that got you so ticked off?"
Fiction book (2000) -
I could have done without him very nicely that day, because I was still genuinely ticked off.
Academic text (1994) -
Anyway, Jessica got kind of ticked off at me.
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They're probably going to be pretty ticked off, won't they?
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"Of course I'm ticked off," Silver told Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts.
Blog text (11) -
Some people are pushing back on people like you, like people like me and maybe you who are ticked off about this Dylan Mulvaney partnership with Bud Light.
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I was really ticked off when he forgot my birthday.
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After receiving that unfair criticism, she felt quite ticked off.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling very annoyed or upset
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1.0
Feeling angry or upset with someone
631
8.4
Feeling very angry or annoyed
235
8.6
Very angry or annoyed
143
1.0
Feeling a little angry or bothered by something small
67
6.5
Unhappy and annoyed because you feel unfairly treated or disappointed
56
3.1
Feeling annoyed or a little angry because something keeps bothering you
42
7.1
Feeling annoyed or angry
17
6.3
Feeling very angry or annoyed
15
7.1
Slightly annoyed because someone was rude or unfair
12
5.5
Feeling more angry or annoyed because of something
12
6.7
Annoyed or a little angry about something small
4
9.5
Feeling annoyed or angry about something
2
8.4
Angry and upset because something caused trouble
1
8.2
Feeling very annoyed and impatient because of something
1
7.4
Feeling annoyed or slightly angry at something
1
8.9
Annoyed and fed up after repeated problems or long delays
1
9.9
Very annoyed or angry about something
Antonyms
How Angry
Surface Forms
Morphology
ticked + off
The meaning 'annoyed' is not predictably derived from the literal senses of 'tick' (a mark or sound) and 'off' (away/away from). This is an idiomatic phrasal adjective formed from a verb + particle, so learners who know the constituents but have not seen the expression will generally not infer its meaning.
Etymology
Ticked off may come from a teacher or boss who puts a tick next to a mistake and then tells someone 'off', meaning 'scolds' them. So the image of being marked and told 'off' helps explain why ticked off now means 'annoyed' or 'angry'.