Word: ticket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪk.ɪt/, /ˈtɪk.ət/ 1. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability. Example: I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come? 2. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability. Example: train ticket bus ticket plane ticket Example: You must show your ticket to the conductor. 3. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability. 4. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability. Example: lottery ticket raffle ticket Example: If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky! 5. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability. Example: The variety of the demands of the railways for staff is almost endless. They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships. 6. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability. Labels: figuratively Example: That's the ticket. Example: I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom. 7. A citation for a traffic violation. 8. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. Example: "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?" "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest. "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog." 9. A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto. Labels: informal Example: Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections. Example: Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket. 10. A small note or notice. Labels: dated Example: He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Example: Under each coin was a circular ticket with written particulars of the specimen accompanying it. 11. A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick). Labels: dated Example: Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress. 12. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description. 13. A visiting card. Labels: dated Example: I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited. Example: "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it." 14. A warrant. Labels: slang Example: […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.