The term tiki-taka is said so often it has seemingly lost it’s meaning. Barcelona popularised this style of play during their era of dominance between 2009 and 2013 but itt is now used as a simplistic label of a passing game. In reality, passing comprises only a small subset of the footballing ideology.
The phrase tika-taka is considered to be the child of Spanish commentator Andrés Montes. An onomatopoeic description of when a team pings (ticks) the ball between each other. But it is not tiki-taka alone that excelled Barça and Spain to the top of the footballing tree.