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adjective
slang USOf music, especially jazz: old-fashioned, unsophisticated, trite; (of a band) performing such music. Also of a rhythm or tempo: even, repetitive, monotonous.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The Chicago Tribune. From ricky-tick + -y, probably in order to create a rhyming compound.
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