tickler

IPA: tˈɪkʌɫɝ

One who tickles.
(informal) A person who or thing which amuses or excites.
A reminder.
A latex condom that has additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user.
(informal, dated) Something puzzling or difficult; a conundrum.
(US, business) A tickler file, file cabinet, or similar containing memoranda of deadlines arranged in date order.
(UK, dated) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
(dated) A dram of spirits.
(slang) Something puzzling; a poser.

Examples of "tickler" in Sentences

"tickler" -- that is, in lighting some straw in the grate below him.
RUBEL: I would recommend doing what lawyers do, which is keeping what we call a tickler file.
Instead, Sullivan hid the most serious corruption cases in what was known as a "tickler" file.
It consisted of a coil, variously known as the tickler, the intensity coil, and the regeneration coil.
It turns out that the file a secretary keeps to remind her boss to do certain things at certain times is called a tickler file.
Mrs Spencer believed the tickler was the old matron's assistant, who the spiritualists said had come back to the house because she believed she still had a job to do.
The word tickler comes from the David Allen task management system which suggests a manual technique for maintaining a set of reminders and a habit of looking at them to see which are due.
Many researchers and others involved in medication adherence issues are excited about the potential of technology to educate patients and provide a "tickler" system to remind them to take their drugs.