I was watching the show Weeds on showtime, and in the opening song they say things were made of ticky tacky. Is it an object or some kind of metaphor for something? I don't know.
2006-10-05 06:12:18 · 2 answers · asked by Jon 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
tick·y-tack·y : [ tk-tk ]
n.
Shoddy material, as for the construction of standardized housing.
adj.
Made of shoddy material; cheaply built.
a. Marked by a mediocre uniformity of appearance or style: ticky-tacky rows of look-alike houses. b. Tawdry; tacky.
2006-10-05 06:20:45 · answer #1 · answered by rwl_is_taken 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, I think it's referring to the cheap material they used to build single-family homes back in the 1950's, when subdivisions first became popular. The song is old, I've heard it several times before.
2006-10-05 13:20:02 · answer #2 · answered by Sean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋