tikam-tikam adjective 1noun 1verb 1 adjective1 •(Singlish) Arbitrarily chosen; characterized by random choices.it's open secret that finance industry is all tikam tikam one. — 2018 noun1 •(Singapore, Malaysia) A kind of lucky draw or lottery-like game popular throughout the 1950s to the 1970s; usually, prizes are won by pulling slips of paper or numbered tickets from a board.Because school children were forgoing food to play tikam-tikam games with their pocket money, hawkers were eventually banned from selling tikam-tikam to children. — 2013 verb1 •(Singlish) To choose (something) at random.They cannot complain. Tikam-tikam means, play with chance. Sometimes win, sometimes lose. — 2021
