Little jerk
The crossword clue "Little jerk" is answered by TIC, a 3-letter entry. Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TIC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TIC answer page.
Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for TIC
Every other clue in this collection answered by TIC, most used first.
- __-tac-toe - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
- Twitch - used 142 times, most recently in 2025
- Spasm - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
- Quirk - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Muscle spasm - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Nervous twitch - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Personal quirk - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Behavioral quirk - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Idiosyncrasy - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
- Twitching - used 32 times, most recently in 1999
- Facial twitch - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Peculiarity - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Quirky habit - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Involuntary movement - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- __ Tac; breath mint - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- ___ Tacs - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Facial spasm - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- First X or O - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Muscular contraction - used 13 times, most recently in 2012
- Fixation - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Nervous mannerism - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Little spasm - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Muscle twitch - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Nervous habit - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Obsession - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Small spasm - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Jerk - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Unconscious quirk - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Eccentricity - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- First X - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Nervous reaction - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Recurrent twitch - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- "___ Tac Dough" (old game show) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- First "O" of O-O-O - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Foible - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Mannerism - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Muscle jerk - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- "___ Tac Dough" - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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- Little bit - TAD, used 161 times
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