ticketn.¹

Brit.

/ˈtɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈtɪkᵻt/

Forms: Also 1500s Scottish tikket, tikkett, tek-, ticet, tikk-, tykkatt, tik-, tek-, tecat, 1500s–1600s Scottish tiket, 1500s–1700s tickett, 1600s tikett, tyckett, tiquet, Scottish tickket.

Etymology: In 16th cent. (1528) tiket , aphetic form of *etiket, < obsolete French etiquet ‘a little note, breuiate, bill, or ticket; especially such a one, as is stucke vp on the gate of a Court, signifying the seisure &c of an inheritance by order of iustice’; or the parallel French étiquette ‘a ticket fastened within the mouth of a Lawyers booke bag, and containing the titles of the bookes, [etc.]; any inscription, superscription, title, note, or marke set on th'outside of a thing..; also, a token, billet, or ticket, deliuered for the benefit, or aduantage of him that receiues it’ (Cotgrave) < Old French estiquet(te (1387 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < estiquer , to stick, fix, < Germanic; < Old Low German stek-an = Old High German stehhan , German stechen to stick, fix. The primary sense was ‘a little note or notice affixed to anything, a label’, whence extended as in Cotgrave, and in the senses below. It is notable that our earliest instances are Irish and Scotch; but English examples in some senses appear c1600. See also etiquette n., representing a later sense of the French word.

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.

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.

†4.

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.

†c. A certificate given to children at Sunday school recording their progress in religious instruction, esp. their readiness for confirmation. Obsolete.

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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 S^t Mary's vestry to be exam^d by M^r 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!

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 lib^s 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.

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.

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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.

ΘΚΠ

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds ii. 17 He turned the handle on his little ticket dispenser and delivered my receipt.

ticket-examiner n.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

† ticket-jobber n. Obsolete a jobber of lottery-tickets.

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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.

† 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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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).

单词	ticket
释义	ticketn.¹ Brit. /ˈtɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈtɪkᵻt/ Forms: Also 1500s Scottish tikket, tikkett, tek-, ticet, tikk-, tykkatt, tik-, tek-, tecat, 1500s–1600s Scottish tiket, 1500s–1700s tickett, 1600s tikett, tyckett, tiquet, Scottish tickket. Etymology: In 16th cent. (1528) tiket , aphetic form of etiket, < obsolete French etiquet* ‘a little note, breuiate, bill, or ticket; especially such a one, as is stucke vp on the gate of a Court, signifying the seisure &c of an inheritance by order of iustice’; or the parallel French étiquette ‘a ticket fastened within the mouth of a Lawyers booke bag, and containing the titles of the bookes, [etc.]; any inscription, superscription, title, note, or marke set on th'outside of a thing..; also, a token, billet, or ticket, deliuered for the benefit, or aduantage of him that receiues it’ (Cotgrave) < Old French estiquet(te (1387 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < estiquer , to stick, fix, < Germanic; < Old Low German stek-an = Old High German stehhan , German stechen to stick, fix. The primary sense was ‘a little note or notice affixed to anything, a label’, whence extended as in Cotgrave, and in the senses below. It is notable that our earliest instances are Irish and Scotch; but English examples in some senses appear c1600. See also etiquette n., representing a later sense of the French word. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. †4. a. A writing in which something is certified or authorized; a certificate or voucher; a warrant, licence, permit. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. †c. A certificate given to children at Sunday school recording their progress in religious instruction, esp. their readiness for confirmation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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 S^t Mary's vestry to be exam^d by M^r 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. ΘΚΠ 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 lib^s 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. 6. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. †7. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 barrier n. the point at a railway station beyond which one cannot proceed without a ticket. ΘΚΠ 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. 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. † ticket-jobber n. Obsolete a jobber of lottery-tickets. 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. † 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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 > 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 Brit. /ˈtɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈtɪkᵻt/ Etymology: apparently < tick n.³ + -et suffix¹. 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. Brit. /ˈtɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈtɪkᵻt/ Etymology: < ticket n.¹ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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