a slip, usually of paper or cardboard, serving as evidence that the holder has paid a fare or admission or is entitled to some service, right, or the like: a railroad ticket; a theater ticket.
2.
a summons issued for a traffic or parking violation.
3.
a written or printed slip of paper, cardboard, etc., affixed to something to indicate its nature, price, or the like; label or tag.
4.
a slate of candidates nominated by a particular party or faction and running together in an election.
5.
the license of a ship's officer or of an aviation pilot.
6.
Banking. a preliminary recording of transactions prior to their entry in more permanent books of account.
7.
Informal. the proper or advisable thing: That's the ticket! Warm milk and toast is just the ticket for you.
8.
Archaic. a placard.
9.
Obsolete. a short note, notice, or memorandum.
–verb (used with object)
10.
to attach a ticket to; distinguish by means of a ticket; label.
11.
to furnish with a ticket, as on the railroad.
12.
to serve with a summons for a traffic or parking violation.
13.
to attach such a summons to: to ticket illegally parked cars.
—Idiom
14.
have tickets on oneself, AustralianSlang. to be conceited.
[Origin: 1520–30; 1925–30 for def. 4; earlier tiket < MF etiquet memorandum. See etiquette]
A paper slip or card indicating that its holder has paid for or is entitled to a specified service, right, or consideration: a theater ticket; an airline ticket.
An e-ticket.
A certifying document, especially a captain's or pilot's license.
An identifying or descriptive tag attached to merchandise; a label.
A list of candidates proposed or endorsed by a political party; a slate.
A legal summons, especially for a traffic violation.
The proper or desirable thing: A change of scene would be just the ticket for us.
Informal A means to an end: "He went to Washington ... to become press secretary ... it was his ticket out of the Delta"(Nicholas Lamann).
tr.v.
tick·et·ed, tick·et·ing, tick·ets
To provide with a ticket for passage or admission: ticket all passengers through to Amsterdam.
To attach a ticket to; tag. See Synonyms at mark1.
To designate for a specified use or end; destine: funds that have been ticketed for medical research.
To serve (an offender) with a legal summons: ticket a speeding motorist.
[Obsolete French etiquet, label, note, from Old French estiquet, post serving as a target in certain sports, notice, label, from estiquier, to stick, of Germanic origin; see steig- in Indo-European roots.]
Word History: The resemblance in form between the words ticket and etiquette is not accidental; both have the same ultimate source, Old French estiquet. But because these words were borrowed into English at different times, they came into our language with different meanings. Old French estiquet meant "a note, label." Having been changed in form to etiquet in French, the word was adopted into English in the 16th century in a form without the initial e, tiket (first recorded in 1528). The earliest uses of the word in English were in the senses "a short written notice," "a notice posted in a public place," and "a written certification." The word is first recorded with reference to something like a ticket of admission in 1673. In French, meanwhile, the word (in the form étiquette) came in the 18th century to mean "a ceremonial, a book in which court ceremonies were noted down or labeled." The French word was borrowed again into English, this time in the form etiquette, which is first recorded in 1750.
1528, "short note or document," from an aphetic form of M.Fr. etiquet "label, note," from O.Fr. estiquette "a little note" (1387), especially one affixed to a gate or wall as a public notice, from estiquer "to affix, stick," from Frank. *stikkan, cognate with O.E. stician "to pierce" (see stick (v.)). Meaning "card or piece of paper that gives its holder a right or privilege" is first recorded 1673, probably developing from the sense of "certificate, license, permit." The political sense of "list of candidates put forward by a faction" has been used in Amer.Eng. since 1711. The verb is first recorded 1611. Meaning "official notification of offense" is from 1930; parking ticket first attested 1947. Big ticket item is from 1970. Slang the ticket "just the thing, what is expected" is recorded from 1838, perhaps with notion of a winning lottery ticket.
Et"i*quette`\, n. [F. prop., a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket, OF. estiquete, of German origin; cf. LG. stikke peg, pin, tack, stikken to stick, G. stecken. See Stick, and cf. Ticket.] The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. --Prescott.
Tick"et\, n. [F. ['e]tiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: (a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local] He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. --Fuller. (b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.] Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress. --J. Cotgrave. (c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket. (d) A label to show the character or price of goods. (e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like. (f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [U. S.] The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. --Sarah Franklin (1766). Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out. Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties. Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change. Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [Eng.] --Simmonds. Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [Eng.] --Simmonds. Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [Eng.]
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