ticketn.1
/ˈtɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈtɪkᵻt/ 1.
a. A short written notice or document; a memorandum, a note, a billet. †in ticket, in writing (Scottish). Obsolete except as in 1b, 1c.This general sense is present in nearly all those that follow, which differ mainly in respect of the purpose or use to which the written statement or note is put.
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society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > notes
remembrancec1380
scrow1426
memoranda1450
memorialc1450
memorandumc1490
memoir1494
ticket1528
note1548
pamphil1571
notation1587
ricordo1617
notandum1645
bulletin1651
memo1705
remark1788
mem.1813
1528 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 403 The Bailiefe shall not priese no flesh..unlesse he can get a tiket or bill of the merchanndes hand with the boucher to whom he had sold the same.
1589 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 395 To present thair desiris in tikkatt to the Lordis compositouris.
c1600 King James VI in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 396/2 Sicc soumis as the Duike of Lenox hes in tickket.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 411 The Bankers..haue a meeting, and by certaine tickets in writing euerie man doth deliuer his opinion, what the price of Exchange ought to be.
1627 J. Ussher Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Col. cxiii. 374 The Bishop of Derry hath left with me his Ticket, wherein he undertakes to pay 50£ unto any one of the Captains to whom your Lordship shall appoint.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 157 If your ticket had overtaken me at Orleans, I had certainly returned to Paris to receive that honour it promised me.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 12 Apr. (1970) II. 73 While I am now writing, comes one with a tickett to invite me to Captain Robt. Blakes buriall.
1755 in Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania (1759) Every one votes as he pleases, the election being by written tickets, folded up and put in a box.
1760 Hooper in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 82 A page delivered him a ticket, importing that something had happened to the (late) King.
b. spec. A written tender for ore, made by the smelter. Cf. ticketing n. 2. local.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > bidding or offering to buy > the bid or offer
bodec1200
lof1556
tender1666
proposal1701
ticket1778
bid1788
counter-bid1960
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 287 The highest bidder or ticket should be the purchaser.
a1856 Paris in Jago Cornwall Gloss. (1882) 291 Those [agents] of various Companies..produce a sealed ticket of the price they will give for ore; and he whose ticket is highest, takes the ore.
1870 J. Percy Metall. Lead 496 Each Mine sends samples of its ore to the Smelters in various localities, along with a notice to the effect that tenders or tickets will be received up to a certain day, on which they will be opened and the highest offer accepted.
c. Stock Market: see quot. 1882.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange accounting period > settlement > settlement day > day before > ticket
ticket1882
name1907
1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. 299 Ticket Day..is the day for the passing of tickets between brokers and jobbers, by means of which they learn the amount of stocks and shares they have respectively to deliver or receive on the day following.
1912 Stock Exchange Ticket All rights in respect of this ticket are hereby claimed.
1912 Stock Exchange Ticket If this Ticket be divided, insert Number and name of party dividing it, or New Ticket will not be paid for.
2.
a. A written notice for public information; formerly, a notice posted in a public place; a placard; now esp. a slip of cardboard, metal, paper, etc., attached to an object, and bearing its name, description, price, or the like; a label, show-card.This may have been the original sense.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > a placard, notice, or bill
bill1480
placard1560
ticket1567
pancart1577
affix1589
si quis1597
affiche1602
placketa1605
programme1633
programmaa1661
advertisement1692
clap-bill1699
handbill1718
daybill1731
show bill?a1750
notice1766
play-card1778
card1787
posting bill1788
poster1818
sticker1862
flyer1889
paper1896
1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 504 At the occasioun of sum tikkettis affixt on the Tolbuyth dur of Edinburgh, be his lettre sent to hir Majestie, [he] had desyrit James Erll Bothwell, and certane specifiit in the saidis tikkettis, to be apprehendit.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bucks. 137 Giving notice of the time to his Auditours in a ticket on the School-dores.
1691 [implied in: London Gaz. No. 2624/4 There being one of the said Bags missing, Ticketed 68l. 3s. 6d. (at ticket v. 1a)].
1766 in Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. (1910) 2/3 The seats in the House of Commons were begun to be taken for the members by pinning down a ticket with their names in such seats as they chose, which were reserved for them till prayers began.
1804 Aston's Manch. Guide 162 A ticket is affixed to each patient's bed, mentioning his name, and that of his physician or surgeon; the time of admission, and the diet ordered for him.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xl. 367 The ticket in the window which announced ‘Apartments to Let’.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions iv. §1. 365 The same coloured margin as that on the ticket ‘Quartz’, surrounds every specimen of quartz in that Case.
b. An official documentary notification of an offence, esp. in connection with traffic regulations. Cf. parking ticket n. at parking n. Compounds 2. Originally U.S.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > notification > of traffic offence
traffic ticket1880
ticket1930
1930 Outlook 12 Feb. 249/1 He wrote the young professor a ticket for speeding.
1935 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (U.K. ed.) vii. 201 It was two blocks from the hotel, and he might get a ticket for parking, but if he couldn't get the ticket fixed it was worth the two-dollar fine to have things straightened out with Harry.
1956 S. Bellow Seize Day (1957) ii. 46 Some fool puts advertising leaflets under your windshield wiper and you have heart failure a block away because you think you've got a ticket.
1964 M. Banton Policeman in Community iii. 62 A driver who made an illegal turn against a red light was ‘given a ticket’ (i.e. a citation was issued against him).
1981 C. Dexter Dead of Jericho xxxii. 176 Cheque for £6, being the penalty fixed for the traffic offence detailed on the ticket.
c. big (or large) ticket item, something expensive. Cf. price ticket n. at price n. Compounds 2. North American colloquial.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [noun] > dearness > something expensive
big (or large) ticket item1970
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. b2/2 Buying plans for big ticket items are up since the previous survey in May and June.
1972 Mod. Law Rev. 35 20 Legal aid does not seem to have made much difference, except with regard to large ticket items in middle class communities.
1975 Washington Post 28 Jan. a19/3 His proposed tax rebate obviously is designed to stimulate consumption of what is known in this week's argot as ‘big ticket items’ like cars.
3. (More fully visiting ticket.) A visiting card. Now Obsolete or dialect; also Anglo-Indian.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting card
ticket1673
card1749
visiting-ticket1770
visiting card1782
calling card1808
pasteboard1837
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 142 I shall only therefore leave a ticket for his assignes.
1773 Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 30 Nov. Sir Horatio Mann..has desired me to leave a ticket with the Grande Maitresse to-morrow.
1778 Mrs. Thrale Let. to Johnson 11 Nov. Your visiting ticket has been left very completely in Wales. Was it the fashion to leave cards in Prior's time?
1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. iii. 37 Why a ticket is only a visiting card, with a name upon it; but we all call them tickets now.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. xiii. 252 Poor dear Mrs. Jones..still calls on the ladies of your family and slips her husband's ticket upon the hall table.
1900 C. Lee Cynthia ii. 20 Mr. Gibbs come in just now..and left his ticket over the chimley.
a. A writing in which something is certified or authorized; a certificate or voucher; a warrant, licence, permit. Also figurative.
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society > law > legal document > authenticating document > [noun]
testimonial1461
ticket1529
testimonya1589
testificate1610
1529 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 126 Conforme to the saidis maisteris of warkis tikatis.
1553 Exch. Rolls Scotl. XVIII. 377 Pas this rentell to the lard of Rawelloun..and kep this our tecat for your varrand.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. F I am the kings Purveyer... Heerees my ticket, denie it if thou darst.
1615 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 334 The Schoole Wardens shall not hencefurth pay or doo any reparacions vpon the howse..without a tyckett for the same vnder Maister Maior's hand.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 52 He..then deliver'd me a tickett, by virtue whereof I was made Excise-free.
1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo 554 Paul would have past for a Righteous person upon his producing the Ticket of a blameless Conversation.
b. = certificate n. 3b slang. spec. an airman's or seaman's certificate of qualification.
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society > law > legal document > authenticating document > [noun] > document certifying bearer
certificatec1550
patent1609
ticketc1900
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > seamen's certificates
branch1783
ticketc1900
c1900 C. J. C. Hyne Master of Fortune i. (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) I'm Captain of the whole of this show now,..and I intend to be respected as such, and hold a full captain's ticket.
1907 M. Roberts Flying Cloud 7 Seventeen years before he got his ‘ticket’, his second greaser's, second mate's ticket, he served in the foc'sle before the mast.
1910 Flight 26 Nov. 970/1 He did rolling practice in the morning, straight flights before luncheon, circuits in the afternoon, and qualified for his ‘ticket’ before dark.
1917 E. C. Middleton Way of Air 32 His ‘ticket’ having been obtained, the ‘quirk’..is given a little more practice in flying slow machines.
1947 M. Lowry Under Volcano iv. 111 If all goes well I'll be sailing from Vera Cruz in about a week. As quartermaster, you knew I had an a.b.'s ticket, didn't you?
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xiii. 268 George..had eventually got his Mate's ticket.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confirmation > [noun] > candidate for > certificate indicating readiness of
ticket1838
1838 J. Romilly Diary 18 July in Cambridge Diary (1967) 153 George went..to St Mary's vestry to be examd by Mr Carus:—he only asked him..‘the meaning of “Sacrament”’, & gave him his ticket.
1879 C. M. Yonge Burnt Out i. 11 Mother! mother! where's my ticket bag? Oh! my tickets! my tickets and my Bible and all my prize books!
5.
a. A slip, usually of paper or cardboard, bearing the evidence of the holder's title to some service or privilege, to which it admits him; as a theatre-ticket, railway or tramway ticket, insurance-ticket, lottery-ticket, lecture-ticket, platform-ticket, communion-ticket, member's ticket, luncheon-ticket, soup-ticket, etc. meal ticket: see meal ticket n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket
ticket1673
card1749
brief1860
ducket1871
rover1934
1673 Galston Sess. Rec. in Edgar Old Ch. Life Scot. (1885) 173 (note) Several hunders of tickets ar distribute.
1682 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 179 The parties were invited by tickets, of which any man might have one for a guiney, it being the price thereof.
1697–8 Act 9 Will. III c. 37 §2 The more orderly Payment of the Lottery Tickets for the said Annuities.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 40 The Tickett of a 1000 libs per annum for 32 Years.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 170. ⁋5 Tickets for the Lottery appointed by the Government.
1741 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 301 To those who were sufficiently recommended tickets were given.
1839 T. Hood Double Knock in Hood's Own 201 Sure he has brought me tickets for the play.
1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 626 The printing of tickets is effected by an ingeniously constructed machine.
1898 F. Montgomery Tony 17 You have got your ticket quite safe, haven't you?
1906 Macmillan's Mag. June 625 Subscribers may obtain from the Society supplies of food-tickets, each representing twopennyworth of food.
1912 N.E.D. at Ticket Mod. Admission only by ticket.
b. figurative.
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1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 21. 135 Your Approbation is the Ticket by which they gain Admittance into your Paper.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 98 Well dressed, well bred, Well equipaged, is ticket good enough, To pass us readily through every door.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. xi. 206 Within a month after this day, Mr. Addison's ticket had come up a prodigious prize in the lottery of life.
1864 Social Sci. Rev. 1 409 Men who have robbed employers, or in some other way sullied their fair fame (in cab language ‘lost the ticket’) but who have not been..prosecuted, easily become cabmen.
c. to have tickets on (a person or thing), to have a strong liking for; esp. to have tickets on oneself and variants, to be vain, to be conceited. Australian slang.
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the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > have liking for [verb (transitive)]
loveOE
likea1200
to have a mind1530
affect1582
relish1600
fancy1616
adore1883
to have tickets on1908
fancify-
the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > be conceited [verb (intransitive)]
to have tickets on oneself1941
1908 W. H. Koebel Anchorage viii. 140 I don't know whether she's got any tickets on me.
1938 ‘R. Hyde’ Nor Years Condemn ix. 179 You must have tickets on her, Starkie.
1941 K. Tennant Battlers 20 ‘Arr,’ the busker said disgustedly, ‘you've got tickets all over yourself.’
1951 D. Cusack & F. James Come in Spinner iv. 32 If people have got any tickets on themselves, Blue don't get nowhere with them.
1970 J. Hibberd White with Wire Wheels in A. Buzo et al. Plays 227 You're the bastard that's always been smug and had tickets on himself.
d. to write one's own ticket: to be able to stipulate one's own conditions, to be in an advantageous position. colloquial.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement [verb (intransitive)] > negotiate > be able to stipulate one's own conditions
to write one's own ticket1928
1928 P. G. Wodehouse Money for Nothing v. 94 ‘But Oil's the stuff, and if you want to part with any of that Silver River of yours, Tom,’ he said, ‘pass it across this desk and write your own ticket.’
1961 C. Cockburn View from West vii. 75 A prelate in the Archbishop's position can..write his own ticket as to what is in the mind of God.
1981 A. Price Soldier no More xvii. 246 He could make his own terms, and write his own ticket.
e. A (counterfeit) pass or passport. slang.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > to go or come > counterfeit
gybe1575
ticket1969
1969 R. Airth Snatch! ii. 23 A small but select stock of tickets—Ziggy sold only the best, no London-issued Lithuanians for him.
1973 G. M. Fraser Flashman at Charge 164 Russia—where everyone has to show his damned ticket every few miles.
f. A piece of paper impregnated with lysergic acid diethylamide (see quot. 1969). slang (chiefly Australian).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > hallucinogenic drug > LSD > capsule or tablet
tab1961
mike1967
sugar1967
ticket1969
microdot1971
1969 Pix 19 Apr. 11/1 It [sc. LSD] is sold usually in absorbent paper in a portion of 120 micrograms known as a ticket. When you take a ticket you are on a trip.
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a. A pay-warrant; esp. a discharge warrant in which the amount of pay due to a soldier or sailor is certified. Also, any certificate of discharge from service, prison, etc.; frequently in to work one's ticket, to obtain (by scheming) one's discharge.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > ransom > [noun] > payment for discharge of recruit
ticketa1599
smart money1760
smart1802
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > manage or manoeuvre
to shuffle the cards1570
to work one's ticketa1599
manoeuvre1801
to work the oracle1823
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > discharge from service > [noun] > certificate of discharge
ticketa1599
undesirable discharge1911
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > release from confinement > order for or certificate of
demission1554
ticket1869
release form1906
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (intransitive)] > obtain one's discharge
to work one's ticket1899
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 77 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) There should bee a Pay-master appointed, of speciall trust, which should pay every man according to his Captaines Ticket, and the accompt of the Clerke of his Band.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 5 Dec. (1972) VI. 319 Mr. Stevens (who is..paying of seamen of their tickets at Depford).
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xiv. 266 Gascoigne having received his discharge-ticket, went on board of the Rebiera.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 299 The sailors were paid with so little punctuality that they were glad to find some usurer who would purchase their tickets at forty per cent discount.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ticket, Seaman's, a register ticket given to seamen from the General Register and Record office of Seamen.
1869 Temple Bar XXV. 217 ‘Coiners’..as a rule returned to their profession as soon as they got their ‘ticket’. Prison is..a great punishment to such men.
1899 H. Wyndham Queen's Service xxxiii. 231 It is a comparatively easy matter for a discontented man to ‘work his ticket’.
1919 Athenæum 15 Aug. 759/1 ‘Working one's ticket’ means taking steps, such as feigning insanity or sickness, in order to get discharged from the army.
1919 Punch 16 Apr. 308/2 Yes, Sir, got my ticket last month—only been back on my old job a fortnight.
1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke iv. 77 He..attempted to work his ticket to one of these new-style open prisons.
1970 W. Smith Gold Mine xxiv. 56 My boss boy has worked his ticket... Can you see that I get a good man to replace him?
b. Short for ticket of leave n.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > released > conditionally > license or permit of conditional release
ticket of leave1732
ticket1843
1843 in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre (1981) No. 19. 61 I have this day given the prisoner named in the margin a pass to proceed to Bathurst as he wished to have his Ticket issued for that District.
1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xii. 169 Blue dress men of exemplary conduct, who were within a year of release on ticket.
1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xxiii. 354 Then he is on ticket now, and wanted for failing to report himself, no doubt.
a. An acknowledgement of indebtedness, an I O U; a promise to pay; a note or memorandum of money or goods received on credit; a debit account, a score; hence phr. on, upon (the) ticket, on credit, on trust. Cf. on tick at tick n.4 1.Probably the ‘ticket’ was originally the ‘note of hand’ of the borrower, but it might easily be transferred to the statement of the same rendered by the creditor, and thus to ‘a tradesman's bill’, as suggested by Nares.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun]
accountc1300
counta1350
scorea1400
audit?1550
tally1580
state1582
memorandum1583
ticket1632
tick1681
a/c1736
financial statement1789
balance sheet1838
tab1889
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > acknowledgement of indebtedness
bill of debt1530
ticket1632
I O U1795
three vowels1822
loan-note1883
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [adverb] > promising to pay
on, upon (the) ticket1632
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 25 The Admirall lost some monies..and then playing on ticket, lost twenty thousand crownes.
a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. B3 Your poor Vitler Sir, where your Lordships men went o' th' ticket.
1643 W. Davenant Vnfortunate Lovers v. i Let 'em not deal on the Ticket. You know ready Mony makes the Pot boil.
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty ii. vi. 19/1 I am resolved to build no more Sconces, but to pay my old tickets.
1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 147 He that hath..his gold ready shall have a sooner dispatch, then the best Scholar upon ticket.
b. = pawn ticket n. at pawn n.3 Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > pawnbroker's duplicate or ticket
ticket1836
brief1860
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 152 You leave your ticket here till you're sober, and send your wife for them two planes.
1863 E. Barlee in N. Longmate Hungry Mills (1978) viii. 112 [He] coomed straight home, made up the fire and burnt every blessed ticket.
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 45 Why, last month you and Beetle sold mine [sc. a watch]! 'Never got a sniff of any ticket.
8. In politics (originally U.S.): the list of candidates for election nominated or put forward by a party or faction. Also, the subject or theme of an election campaign; the principles of a political party as presented for an election. general ticket, a list of candidates put forward for a state or other large political division, equal in number to the entire representation to which the division is entitled, but not chosen to represent each local subdivision. mixed ticket, scratch ticket, split ticket, straight ticket: see quot. 1859.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > list of candidates
lites1533
ticket1711
party ticket1800
slate1842
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > electioneering > theme of election campaign
ticket1927
1711 I. Norris in Penn-Logan Corr. (1872) II. 438 Chester [Pennsylvania] carried their ticket entire.
1764 in W. B. Reed Life etc. J. Reed (1847) I. 36 The Dutch Calvinists and the Presbyterians..to a man assisted the new ticket.
1766 S. Franklin Lett. to B. Franklin (1859) 191 The old ticket forever! We have it by 34 votes!
1789 Maryland Jrnl. 2 Jan. in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) The Federal Ticket recommends Mr. Daniel Carroll for the Sixth District; and the opposite Ticket..Mr. Abraham Faw.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) (at cited entry) According to circumstances a man is said to vote the straight ticket, i.e. the ticket containing the ‘regular nomination’ of his party without change; a scratch ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are erased; a split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of his party; or a mixed ticket, a ticket in which the nominations of different parties are blended into one.
1861 Blair in Cent. Mag. (1889) Sept. 687/2 Chase, who never voted a Democratic ticket in his life.
1863 Clare Jrnl. 18 May 2/4 We venture to tell Mr Vereker and Captain Knox that they need not..attempt to go into Parliament on the Conservative ‘ticket’.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. v. 54 Each party runs its list or ‘ticket’ of thirty presidential electors for that State.
1899 G. B. Shaw Let. 30 Dec. (1972) II. 127 Suppose we do run a ticket, how is it to be done? The [Fabian] Society would not vote a ticket except as between two rival tails to the Exec.
1927 A. Huxley Let. 24 Mar. (1969) 286 How are you going to make a strong working government from a body of people elected on a great variety of different tickets?
1962 Listener 22 Mar. 505/2 Lloyd George had actually fought the election of 1929 on the ticket ‘We can conquer unemployment’.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 3/8 Mr. Woodcock..is running on a youth ticket.
1974 Argus (Cape Town) 2 Aug. 8/7 In 1966, the then Mayor..had to contest an election... He won by topping the poll on a ticket of two.
1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 14 May 7/4 I did not ask Mr. Muggeridge for permission to put his name on the ‘ticket’.
1979 H. Kissinger White House Years ii. 24 Dwight Eisenhower had been elected on the Republican ticket, but he owed little to the Republican Party.
9. slang.
a. The correct thing; what is wanted, expected, or fashionable; esp. in that's the ticket.Perhaps from 8; or, as some have suggested, from the winning ticket in a lottery.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion
gentryc1400
the fashion1569
mainstream1599
the trim1603
mood1646
mode1649
vogue1649
beauty1653
à la mode1654
turn1695
the kick1699
goût1717
thing1734
taste1739
ton1769
nick1788
the tippy1790
twig1811
latest1814
dernier mot1834
ticket1838
kibosh1880
last cry1887
le (or the) dernier cri1896
flavour of the month (or week)1946
vague1962
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate
the very thing1768
ticket1838
to be a person's meat1875
glove-fit1910
1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. xxi. 323 They ought to be hanged, sir, (that's the ticket, and he'd whop the leader).
1843 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 117 I fancy that moderately high hills (like these) are the ticket.
1847 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 179 This [idealizing of portraits] is all wrong. Truth is the ticket.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. vii. 66 Somehow she's not—she's not the ticket.
1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 411 That's the ticket! That's the winning game.
b. The program or plan of action; that which is to be done; the thing on hand.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan
redeeOE
devicec1290
casta1300
went1303
ordinancec1385
intentc1386
imaginationa1393
drifta1535
draught1535
forecast1535
platform1547
ground-plat?a1560
table1560
convoy1565
design1565
plat1574
ground-plota1586
plot1587
reach1587
theory1593
game1595
projectment1611
projecting1616
navation1628
approach1633
view1634
plan1635
systema1648
sophism1657
manage1667
brouillon1678
speculationa1684
sketch1697
to take measures1698
method1704
scheme1704
lines1760
outline1760
measure1767
restorative1821
ground plan1834
strategy1834
programme1837
ticket1842
project1849
outline plan1850
layout1867
draft1879
dart1882
lurk1916
schema1939
lick1955
the world > action or operation > undertaking > [noun] > an undertaking > thing(s) to be done > list of > programme or plan of action
ticket1842
1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene I. xiii. 166 ‘Well’, said Bob Cross, ‘what's the ticket, youngster—are you to go abroad with me?’
1861 C. J. Andersson Okavango River x. 127 [The lion] suddenly squatted, evidently intending to spring upon me. ‘Nay, old fellow’, I muttered to myself, ‘if that's the ticket, I will be even with you’.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.
ticket-box n.
ΚΠ
1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 628 The walls of the booking office are provided with ticket-boxes or tubes.
ticket-pocket n.
ΚΠ
1897 Pall Mall Mag. July 384 He put the coin carefully in the ticket-pocket of his overcoat.
1934 L. A. G. Strong Corporal Tune 80 He..then felt in the ticket pocket.
1978 F. Maclean Take Nine Spies vii. 266 Kim Philby..was..carrying a Soviet Secret Service Cipher in the ticket pocket of his trousers.
ticket-punch n.
ΚΠ
1885 Outing & Wheelman Feb. 588/1 Conductor..H. is unlocking his little corner cupboard and taking therefrom his punch (I mean ticket-punch, of course).
1978 E. Malpass Wind brings up Rain iv. 39 The girl sat down, fiddling with her ticket punch.
ticket stub n.
ΚΠ
1929 ‘E. Queen’ Roman Hat Myst. i. iii. 46 You'll be looking for ticket-stubs... Anything resembling half a ticket.
1979 ‘M. Hebden’ Death set to Music v. 50 ‘But I was in Paris!’ ‘We have only your word and two ticket stubs to confirm that.’
ticket-system n.
ΚΠ
1824 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1850) III. iii. 37 The ticket system operates admirably.
1848–9 J. C. Calhoun Disc. Constit. & Govt. U.S. in Wks. (1863) I. 370 The general ticket system; which has become..the universal mode of appointing electors to choose the President and Vice-President.
ticket-tax n.
b. With the sense ‘having to do with the selling, etc. of tickets’.
ticket agency n.
ΚΠ
1923 Variety 1 Nov. 14/3 The ticket agencies took the attraction on the basis of an eight week buy.
1975 R. Hoban Turtle Diary li. 206 A lady from the ticket agency where Miss Neap had worked.
ticket-agent n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of tickets
booking clerk1823
ticket-seller1844
booking agent1849
ticket-agent1861
1861 Richmond (Va.) Examiner 6 Dec. 3/3 Mr. John M. Parker, for several years the efficient General Freight and Ticket Agent of the Richmond and Petersburg railroad.
1976 V. J. Scott & D. Koski Walk-in (1977) i. iii. 20 The ticket agent was..the wrong side of middle age.
ticket booth n.
ΚΠ
1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises ii. xvii. 196 The ticket-booths out in the square.
1981 P. Fox Satan's Messenger ii. xiv. 108 A ticket booth where he paid 20p to proceed.
ticket-caravan n.
ΚΠ
1924 D. H. Lawrence England, my England 101 A great crowd of people was gathered round the ticket-caravan.
ticket-clerk n.
ticket counter n.
ΚΠ
1862 Railway Traveller's Handy Bk. 68 An elderly lady presents herself at the ticket counter.
1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xv. 293 Will..leaning on the ticket counter below the boarded window.
1977 G. Scott Hot Pursuit iii. 34 When I got to the airport I..walked over to the ticket counter for my airline.
ticket-guard n.
ticket hall n.
ΚΠ
1969 Listener 6 Mar. 295/3 The miners set about the job of unearthing a new ticket hall, designed to become the busiest in London.
1978 H. R. F. Keating Long Walk to Wimbledon x. 165 She made her way..to the station entrance... There were yet more people inside the old ticket hall.
ticket machine n.
ΚΠ
1924 D. H. Lawrence England, my England 52 They pounce on the youths who try to evade their ticket-machine.
1963 Times 24 May (Suppl.) p. vii/4 Another relic of postwar contempt for the passenger is the refusal to install at Underground stations that have automatic ticket machines a single machine that will enable the passenger without small change to obtain it so that he can operate the ticket machine.
1979 Listener 18 Oct. 520/1 Ten-pence pieces have to be hoarded for..the ticket machine at St James's Park tube station.
ticket-man n.
ticket-money n.
ΚΠ
1827 L. T. Rede Road to Stage 56 I remember Miss S——, at Drury, from neglecting this precaution, having to pay one hundred and ninety-eight pounds, out of her ticket money alone, to her co-partner in the benefit.
1902 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Weekly 6 Dec. 4/2 The man could not get back the ticket-money.
ticket-office n.
ΚΠ
1667 S. Pepys Diary 4 Jan. (1974) VIII. 4 My Lord Brouncker went away after dinner to the Ticket Office.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. xxi. 221 A noisy crowd was gathered around the ticket-office.
1980 J. O'Faolain No Country for Young Men iii. 56 ‘No point travelling First’, the man at the Euston ticket office had advised.
ticket-official n.
ticket-room n.
ΚΠ
1895 Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. 3/1 After the exhausting and exciting struggle in the ticket-room comes the preparation for the settling or pay day.
ticket wagon n.
ΚΠ
1895 McClure's Mag. June 55/1 The band-wagons and the chariots, the calliope, the chimes, the oil-tank, the sprinklers, the ticket-wagon..have arrived.
1910 G. B. McCutcheon Rose in Ring i. i. 6 At the corner of the tented common stood the ‘ticket wagon’.
1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 60 Thinking of the old ticket wagon brings those days back.
ticket wicket n.
ΚΠ
1891 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka v, in Cent. Mag. Dec. 191/1 Tarvin..stepped out through the ticket wicket into Rajputana.
1964 M. Laurence Stone Angel v. 124 The ticket wicket's straight ahead. You can't miss it.
ticket window n.
ΚΠ
1865 Harper's Mag. May 816/1 [He] asked me to await his return while he crowded to the ticket-window and procured tickets for both.
1979 P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express xiii. 201 Ticket windows were only opened a few hours before the train was to go.
c. With the sense ‘to which admission is obtained by ticket’.
ticket-gathering n.
ticket-meeting n.
ΚΠ
1889 Spectator 9 Nov. 634/1 A quasi-public or ticket meeting.
d. Objective.
(a)
ticket-buyer n.
ticket-clipper n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > ticket-collector
ticket-man1803
ticket-collector1850
ticket-clipper1884
collector1887
ticket chopper1898
1884 Law Times 23 Aug. 301/1 He presented a ticket at the barrier..saying to the ticket-clipper, ‘I want the train for Canonbury’.
ticket-collector n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > ticket-collector
ticket-man1803
ticket-collector1850
ticket-clipper1884
collector1887
ticket chopper1898
1850 F. B. Head in E. R. Pike Human Doc. Victorian Golden Age 97 The ticket collector at Camden station.
1977 R. Barnard Blood Brotherhood ii. 18 The Bishop..bestowed his ticket on the ticket-collector.
ticket-dispenser n.
ΚΠ
1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 17 He turned the handle on his little ticket dispenser and delivered my receipt.
ticket-examiner n.
ΚΠ
1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger v. 48 He dived under the seat as they drew in at a station. The ranks drew together and out-stared the ticket-examiner.
1971 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 1/4 Mr. Manaka reported this to the ticket examiner.
ticket-holder n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket > ticket-holder
ticket-holder1859
season-ticket holder1862
ticketer1865
ticket-man1904
1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. I. viii. 154 Suppose the ticket-holder declined, he was not admitted, and when matters came to that pass, people always paid.
1979 D. Hurd End to Promises i. 15 To avert violence these rallies were to be for ticket-holders only.
ticket-inspector n.
ΚΠ
1908 Westm. Gaz. 9 May 2/3 In full view of that stern and uncompromising ticket-inspector.
ticket-nipper n.
ΚΠ
1890 Daily News 22 Sept. 2/6 Wire-plyers and pincers, ticket-nippers, wrenches, spanners, &c.
ticket punch n.
ΚΠ
1893 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 30 The ticket puncher looks astonished for a moment, and then..cries, ‘Next!’
ticket-receiver n.
ticket-seller n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of tickets
booking clerk1823
ticket-seller1844
booking agent1849
ticket-agent1861
1844 J. Cowell Thirty Years among Players iv. 65 John Blake I appointed secretary of the treasury and principal ticket-seller.
ticket-snipper n.
ticket-taker n.
ΚΠ
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table vi Toll-men and ticket-takers.
ticket-writer n.
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ticket-writer, one who writes or paints showy placards and legible tickets for goods in shop windows.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 454 Export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers.
(b)
ticket-clipping n.
ticket-collecting n.
ΚΠ
1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) I. xx. 397 The crush of a ticket-collecting.
1897 Daily News 6 July 7/3 The minutes consumed in the stoppage for ticket-collecting.
ticket-issuing n.
ΚΠ
1952 Evening News (Port of Spain, Trinidad) 11 Jan. 2/1 Recently ‘Tim’, a ticket-issuing machine, was introduced to save time and money.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling x. 237 Mechanical ticket-issuing machines.
ticket-punching n.
ticket-snatching n.
ticket-writing n.
ΚΠ
1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization vii. 57 A ticket-writing department, where price tickets for displays and sales placards are written or printed.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 8 Apr. d1/1 Tucson travel agents and the University of Arizona are at loggerheads over the proposed creation of a taxpayer-financed ticket-writing service that would handle at least some of the $2 million the school expects to spend on air travel this year.
C2. Special combinations. See also ticket-porter n.† ticket-jobber n. Obsolete a jobber of lottery-tickets.† ticket-monger n. Obsolete one who trafficked in the pay-warrants of seamen, giving ready money with a large deduction, and then presenting them for payment.
ticket barrier n. the point at a railway station beyond which one cannot proceed without a ticket.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > ticket barrier
ticket barrier1939
1939 W. H. Auden in New Writing Spring 2 Crowds round the ticket barrier.
1981 J. B. Hilton Surrender Value iii. 29 The man who stood beyond the ticket barrier, scanning the boat-train.
ticket benefit n. an entertainment for which special tickets are sold, the proceeds being for the benefit of a particular person or object.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > other types
début1751
vehicle1785
benefit1802
showpiece1810
ticket-night1812
yatra1827
command1839
lollipopa1849
party piece1851
roadshow1874
one-night stand1878
stand1878
one-man show1879
small1886
command performance1897
ticket benefit1898
frivol1903
run-through1905
pre-production1906
riot1909
one-nighter1916
gala performance1932
improv1953
warm-up1958
workshopping1966
impro1979
1898 Daily News 30 July 2/4 The London Trades Council has arranged for a ticket benefit..in aid of the Welsh Miners' Relief Fund.
ticket broker n. U.S. a dealer in unexpired or return railway tickets: = ticket-scalper n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in tickets
scalper1869
ticket-scalper1875
ticket broker1902
reventa1932
ticket tout1950
tout1959
1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. i. 109/1 Ticket-scalper, a ticket-broker.
ticket chopper n. U.S. (a) a machine which mutilates used railway tickets deposited in it by passengers; also, a similar device used in cinemas; (b) the employee in charge of this machine.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > ticket-collector
ticket-man1803
ticket-collector1850
ticket-clipper1884
collector1887
ticket chopper1898
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with other specific tools or equipment
presser1545
stamper1556
blocker1609
benchman1658
engineman1777
squaremanc1790
kettleman1833
vice-man1837
poleman1859
tackle-man1859
ladler1875
sand-blaster?1881
ticket chopper1898
cager1908
gadgeteer1926
paint sprayer1928
society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > shredder > for paper
ticket chopper1898
shredder1950
paper shredder1962
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > specific machine or employee
ticket chopper1898
1898 C. B. Davis Borderland of Society 90 She took up with ticket-chopper on the elevated road.
1905 Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 5/4 One hundred students from Columbia University..volunteered their services to the company as guards and ticket-choppers.
1915 J. B. Rathbun Motion Picture Making 119 To prevent the tickets from being used a second time a ‘ticket chopper’ may be used that mutilates the ticket in such a way that it is impossible to present it without detection.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 976/1 Sam, ticket-chopper in a movie-house.
ticket-day n. see quot. 1858.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange accounting period > settlement > settlement day > day before
name day1850
ticket-day1858
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ticket-day, the day before the settling or pay-day on the Stock Exchange, when the names of bona-fide purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 11/1 The business of ticket-days..is entirely clerical, consisting chiefly..of the passing of buyers' names to sellers of stock or shares.
ticket fine n. a fine imposed on a motorist for violation of traffic regulations by the issuing of a ticket (sense 2b) rather than by prosecution in court.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > for violation of traffic regulations
parking fine1953
ticket fine1959
1959 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 1 (heading) Ticket-fine system for drivers opposed.
1979 T. Skyrme Changing Image Magistracy vii. 80 Further relief came in 1960 with the introduction of ‘ticket fines’ for illegal parking and some other minor offences.
ticket-holder n. (a) one who holds a ticket of admission, etc.; (b) a clip or other device for holding or attaching a ticket or label.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket > device for holding or attaching a ticket or label
ticket-holder1877
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > ticket for a public conveyance > device for holding or attaching a ticket
ticket-holder1877
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Ticket-holder, a device to hold a railway ticket in the hat or to the lappel of the coat; or a tag to a bale or package.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > organizers
King Ragmanc1450
lottery man1664
lottery cavalier1682
raffler1707
ticket-jobber1737
lottery broker1754
1737 Gentleman's Mag. June 368/1 The Subscriptions being filled, whatever Reflections may be made, they can be of no Prejudice to the Lottery, but only affect the Ticket-Jobbers.
ticket-man n. (a) a ticket-holder; spec. a seaman who held a certificate exempting him from impressment (now Historical); (b) a railway employee who collects or punches tickets.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > ticket-collector
ticket-man1803
ticket-collector1850
ticket-clipper1884
collector1887
ticket chopper1898
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > one holding certificate exempting from prison
ticket-man1803
society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket > ticket-holder
ticket-holder1859
season-ticket holder1862
ticketer1865
ticket-man1904
1803 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 46 This ship is navigated to Portsmouth by Ticket-men (men who are protected from the impress by some cause or other).
1893 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 37 Miss Travenion is conducted..past the ticket man at the gate, and on board the train.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 10/1 Admission is by tickets, available for six nights, and..‘ticket men’ get the first chance of entrance.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in seamen's pay warrants
ticket-monger1668
1668 S. Pepys Diary 5 Mar. (1976) IX. 103 To answer only one question, touching our paying tickets to ticket-mongers.
ticket-night n. a benefit performance: see quot. 1812.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > other types
début1751
vehicle1785
benefit1802
showpiece1810
ticket-night1812
yatra1827
command1839
lollipopa1849
party piece1851
roadshow1874
one-night stand1878
stand1878
one-man show1879
small1886
command performance1897
ticket benefit1898
frivol1903
run-through1905
pre-production1906
riot1909
one-nighter1916
gala performance1932
improv1953
warm-up1958
workshopping1966
impro1979
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. xv Some forth on ticket-nights from tradesmen break, To mar the actor they design to make. [Note.] Ticket-nights are those whereon the inferior actors club for a benefit: each distributes as many tickets of admission as he is able among his friends.
ticket-scalper n. U.S. slang = scalper n.2 2a, 2c.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in tickets
scalper1869
ticket-scalper1875
ticket broker1902
reventa1932
ticket tout1950
tout1959
1875 W. N. Bryant Railroad Guide 12 It would prevent the deception daily practiced upon this class by ticket scalpers.
1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Ticket scalper, a speculator in unused railway tickets.
1935 Time 26 Aug. 27/1 Comedian Joe Brown..is locked out of his dressing room by mistake on his opening night and is compelled to pay $20 to a ticket scalper to get into the theatre in time for his entrance cue.
ticket-scalping n.
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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > in tickets
ticket-scalping1892
ticketing1962
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Nov. 2/1 (Farmer) Ticket-scalping..has reference to the transferability or otherwise of tickets rather than to their date of expiry.
ticket-shop n. a shop displaying ticketed goods in the window.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop
show shop1787
lock-up shop1795
cash-store1811
boat shop1813
slaughter shop1841
slaughterhouse1851
ticket-shop1851
charity shop1853
magic shop1853
company store1872
Army and Navy1878
five-and-ten1880
farthing-shop1889
funeral home1895
goodwill1916
shop-within-(a)-shop1916
cash and carry1917
Piggly Wiggly1917
poverty shop1948
discount house1949
anchor1960
box store1976
mom-and-pop1976
op shop1978
duty-free1980
pound shop1983
pop-up2000
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 380/2 A thoroughfare full of ticket-shops.
ticket-splitter n.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > types of voting > one who
plumper1761
faggot voter1818
repeater1862
vest-pocket voter1888
swing vote1966
ticket-splitter1972
tactical voter1974
1972 De Vries & Tarrance Ticket-Splitter i. 22 We will examine the way the ticket splitter makes up his mind about politics and government.
1980 Washington Star 10 Oct. a–6 The area also has been very strong for Republican Gov. William Milliken, a moderate who has been elected three times by ticket splitters.
ticket-splitting n. and adj. U.S. the practice of voting for candidates of different political parties in the same election.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > types of voting
faggot voting1835
faggotry1841
repeating1888
protest voting1935
ticket-splitting1957
tactical voting1974
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [adjective] > type of voting > practising type of voting
ticket-splitting1957
1957 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. LI. 308 (heading) Other motives and ticket splitting.
1972 Times 13 Oct. 9/3 Mr Nixon..is obviously complacent at the prospect of ticket-splitting, under which Democrats are being invited to salve their consciences by voting for their local party candidates while giving their presidential vote to Mr Nixon.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 5/1 This is the damndest crossover, ticket-splitting state in the nation.
ticket tout n. one who obtains tickets for sporting, theatrical, or other events and attempts to resell them at more than the published price.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in tickets
scalper1869
ticket-scalper1875
ticket broker1902
reventa1932
ticket tout1950
tout1959
1950 Sport 24 Mar. 20/4 A final word about the ticket touts.
1982 Times 17 Mar. 11/2 Cats..is still giving the ticket touts an excellent living.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
ticketn.2
/ˈtɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈtɪkᵻt/ dialect.
A minute quantity or part.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount
shredc1000
farthingsworthc1325
pennyworthc1330
incha1350
sliverc1374
chipa1393
gnastc1440
Jack1530
spoonful1531
crumba1535
spark1548
slight1549
pin's worth1562
scruple1574
thought1581
pinch1583
scrap1583
splinter1609
ticket1634
notchet1637
indivisible1644
tinyc1650
twopence1691
turn of the scale(s)1706
enough to swear by1756
touch1786
scrimptiona1825
infinitesimal1840
smidgen1841
snuff1842
fluxion1846
smitchel1856
eyelash1860
smidge1866
tenpenceworth1896
whisker1913
tidge1986
1634 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. V. 414 Seatoun threatned the notar, avowing to take a ticket aff his haffet if he gave out any instrument in this mater.
1732 H. Fielding Lottery (ed. 2) iii. 29 I have not got it as yet—but upon my Shoul, I was within a Ticket of it.
1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 134/2 [Somerset] A donkey load would be called ‘just a little ticket’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
ticketv.
/ˈtɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈtɪkᵻt/ 1.
a. transitive. To attach a ticket to; to mark with a ticket indicating the value, contents, description, origin, destination, or the like; to distinguish by means of a ticket; to label. Chiefly in past participle.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > label, tag, or ticket [verb (transitive)]
ticket1611
label1731
betag1763
relabel1834
mislabel1835
tablet1864
tag1883
sticker1912
flag1934
1611 [see ticketed adj. at Derivatives].
1691 London Gaz. No. 2624/4 There being one of the said Bags missing, Ticketed 68l. 3s. 6d.
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 107 Plant these Trees in Baskets, well ticketted, or..set down carefully in our Book.
1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 135/2 The post-boy..was robbed..of the mail..containing two bags, ticketed Newcastle, and Newcastle and York.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 128 Pictures which are sold during the exhibition will be ticketed as such.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xvii. 395 Of those [specimens] which were ticketed with their locality, not one was common to any two of the Islands.
b. figurative. To describe or mark as by a ticket; to designate, characterize, set down (as so and so): = label v. 4.
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society > communication > indication > designation > designate [verb (transitive)]
seala1225
designa1398
representa1645
sign1654
ticket1654
designate1677
signature1740
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 435 I make no doubt but confident forwardnesse, and undertakings, would Ticket men passable..that could scarce tell which end of their Bibles to hold uppermost.
1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking II. xl. 16 A few glittering Prizes..among an infinity of Blanks, drew troops of Adventurers; who, if the whole Fund had been equally ticketed, would never have come in.
1856 T. A. Trollope Girlhood C. de Medici i. 10 We find certain characters ticketed from age to age in history as monsters of atrocity.
1884 Christian Commonw. 14 Feb. 424/2 There is a present fashion of ticketing all outspoken religion as sham talk.
2. To furnish with a ticket; to issue a railway or other travelling ticket to; to ‘book’; also absol., to issue tickets. U.S.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > permit [verb (transitive)] > provide with a ticket
ticket1842
1842 H. W. Longfellow Let. 15 Feb. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. xxiii. 415 To borrow the expression of a fellow-traveller, we were ‘ticketed through to the depot’.
1852 Boston Traveller 24 Dec. 3/2 Passengers ticketed through from New York to Cincinnati.
1882 Kansas City Jrnl. 19 Feb. (advt.) We ticket directly to every place of importance.
3. intransitive. To make a tender for tin or copper ore by means of a ‘ticket’ or written tender: see ticket n.1 1b, ticketing n. 2. local.
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society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > make various types of bid
revie1591
underbid1611
bida1616
overbid1616
to buy over a person's head1682
ticket1778
spring1851
tender1865
jolly1869
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 287 Three hundred tons of Ore belonging to the same Mine were to be ticketed for on a day appointed.
4. transitive. To attach a parking ticket, etc. to (a vehicle); to serve with a ticket for a traffic or other offence. U.S.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [verb (transitive)] > serve with ticket for offence
ticket1955
1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. xxiii. 131 I should explain that the prompt appearance of the patrolmen..was due to their having been ticketing the illegally parked cars in a cross lane two blocks down the grade.
1966 Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, Va.) 8 Feb. 2/1 If you don't park next to the curb, you're still liable to be ticketed.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 30 June 1- b/3 Two dog owners who were ticketed by animal wardens because their animals were allegedly involved in a wading pool melee are planning to fight back.
1979 R. Ballantine Richard's Bicycle Bk. (rev. ed.) i. vii. 122 Cyclists have been ticketed for causing an obstruction by riding too far to the right.
Derivatives
ˈticketed adj. marked with or bearing a ticket or tickets.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [adjective]
ticketed1611
tagged1908
stickered1927
nameplate1936
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tiqueté, ticketted, or appointed by ticket.
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate vi A hackney coach..that obscure vehicle, which was not permitted to degrade with its ticketed presence the dignity of Baliol's Lodging.
1828 Dobie Mem. W. Wilson of Crummock (1896) 100 On the ball night she was my ticketed companion.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 138 A dirty-looking ticketed linen-draper's shop, with goods of all kinds, and labels of all sorts and sizes in the window.
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