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tick⋅et

  [tik-it]
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–noun
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.
–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, Australian Slang. to be conceited.
Origin:
1520–30; 1925–30 for def. 4; earlier tiket < MF etiquet memorandum. See etiquette

Related forms:
tick⋅et⋅less, adjective
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Main Entry:  ticketless1
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  not having a ticket
Etymology:  1868
Main Entry:  ticketless2
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  pertaining to travel not requiring a printed ticket; also, pertaining to travel by electronic ticket
Etymology:  1982
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Slang Dictionary
ticket

  1. n.
    the exact thing; the needed thing. : This degree will be your ticket to a bright and shining future.
  2. n.
    a license. : I showed her my ticket, and she let me off with a warning.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

ticket 
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

ticket

See order ticket.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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