Reference meaning
ticky tacky
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Cheap, low-quality building material, especially as that used to make conventional suburban housing of a uniform design.
Other meanings
2. adjective
Made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality.
3. adjective
Inferior, minor, trivial.
4. noun
Alternative spelling of ticky-tacky (“shoddy construction material; tar paper”).
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