Tic-tac

• Odds of 9/4 – both hands touching the top of the head.
• Odds of 10/1 – fists together with the right-hand thumb protruding upwards, to resemble the number 10.
• Odds of 11/10 – hands together and touching all fingers on both hands together.
• Odds of 5/4 – the right hand is moved to touch the left wrist.
• Odds of 33/1 – arms crossed, hands flat against the chest.

Tic-tac terms

Odds

• Bottle – 2–1
• Burlington Bertie – 100–30
• Carpet – 3–1
• Century – 100–1
• Ching – 5–1
• Cockle – 10–1
• Double carpet – 33–1
• Double net – 20–1
• Double tops – 15–8
• Ear'ole – 6–4
• Elef – 11–1
• Elef a vier – 11–4
• Enin – 9–1
• Exes – 6–1
• Face – 5–2
• Handful or hand – 5–1
• Levels – evens
• Macaroni – 25–1
• Major Stevens – evens
• Net – 10–1
• Net and bice – 12/1
• Net and ex – 16/1
• Net and rouf −14/1
• Neves or nevis – 7–1
• Neves to rouf – 7/4
• Pony – 25–1
• Roof or rouf – 4–1
• Sais a wang – 6–5
• Scruffy and dirty – 100–30
• Shoulder – 7–4
• Shoulders or On the shoulders – 9–2
• Straight up – evens
• TH – 8–1
• Tips – 11–10
• Top of the head – 9–4
• Up the arm – 11–8
• Wrist – 5–4
• Xis – 6–1

  Other terms

• Beeswax – tax
• Jolly – a favourite
• Kite – a cheque
• Knock – not pay up when owing
• Pony – £25
• Ton – £100
• Monkey – £500
• A bag – £1000
• Rock cake – a small bet