ticas
Ticas is primarily a Spanish term that functions as the feminine plural form of the demonym tica. In this usage, tico refers to a Costa Rican man and tica to a Costa Rican woman, with ticas used to describe a group of Costa Rican women. The term appears in everyday speech, media, and literature as a gendered way to reference people from Costa Rica.
In practice, las ticas is a colloquial and culturally specific expression rather than a formal nationality
Outside of Spanish, ticas has no single defined meaning. When written in uppercase as TICA, the string
In summary, ticas most reliably refers to Costa Rican women in Spanish, while uppercase TICA typically denotes