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trip tic

noun
/ˈtɹɪp.tɪk/

Etymology

Likely a genericized form of AAA's TripTik travel planners, developed in 1937; the original product may be a pun on triptych or a shortened form of trip ticket.

Definitions

  1. A map, with the route to follow highlighted.

    • Their guide will also consult an index card file in the map room, known as the "trip tics" file.
    • When they read two books and turned in a written report they were given a trip tic for the next town (including information about the town with Scripture references) and a dot was placed on the map to indicate that they had visited there.
    • He says Your Word, God I have laid before me--- kind of like the treasure map or the trip tic of my life.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA