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tick over
verb
- Alsoidle (of an engine) to run at low speed with the throttle control closed and the transmission disengaged
- to run smoothly without any major changes
keep the firm ticking over until I get back
noun
- the speed of an engine when it is ticking over
- ( as modifier )
tick-over speed
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