[tik-it] 
| 1. | 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. |
| 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. |
| 14. | have tickets on oneself, Australian Slang. to be conceited. |
| tick·et (tĭk'ĭt) n.
[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. |
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see just the ticket; meal ticket; split ticket; straight ticket; write one's own ticket.
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