Tickle
Tickle verb - Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
Work
Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
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Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Unfortunately, it didn't work, due to Spongebob having the control to his tickle-belt on hand.
Source: Deadly Lunge -
This doesn't work in every area with those types of items (the brains of your campmates), so it mostly just lets you...Tickle people.
Source: Joke Item - Perfect Strangers did this with a bottle of wine, by having Larry try to teach Balki the basics of how these auctions work and end up winning the wine... and then having Balki tickle some bidders into making Accidental Bids of their own to make a profit from the wine.
Source: Accidental Bid
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Work and Tickle. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/tickle/work
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Work or Tickle. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/tickle/work.
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