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ticket
noun- an ordinary person UK
Used generally in Glasgow and MOD - [A] hard ticket (a tough guy) or a useless ticket (a shiftless person, a good-for-nothing). — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, p. 70, 1985
- Meaden also redesigned the band’s clothing, dressing Daltrey as a “face” and the others as “tickets”. — Andrew Motion, The Lamberts, 1986
- What they [Mods] hated in others–the tickets, the seven and sixers [married people]–is that they settled for so much less. — Paolo Hewitt, The Sharper Word, p. 6, 1998
- an amusing or charming person IRELAND
- Then I said well ladies I’m afraid I can’t stay here I have to be off on my travels. Dear dear aren’t you a ticket Francie? they said. — Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy, p. 15, 1992
- a follower (not an originator) of Mod fashion UK, 1964
- The first mods – the “faces”, as they called themselves – would soon be contemptuous of the late-comers – dubbed “the tickets” – the post-commercialised mods. — Dave Haslam, Adventures of the Wheels of Steel, pp. 71–72, 2001
- a professional licence; a certificate of qualification US
Originally military. - I have a Private Operator’s ticket and that’s all. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 43, 1951
- Fein has got this ticket, he can practice law. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 24, 1981
- “You carryin’ a private ticket?” Auburn said. — Robert Campbell, In La-La Land We Trust, p. 70, 1986
- a warrant or bill of detainer US, 2002
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 54, 1976
- I prevailed on Dennis to okay a ticket[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 113, 2002
- an official misconduct report in prison US
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 54, 1976
- — Hugh Morgan, Ye Shall Know It, pp. 266–267, Summer/Winter 1981: “’By its slang”
- an order to be locked in solitary confinement US
- So he saw us sittin’ down and he told the officer down in the hole to write us a ticket. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 146, 1965
- in prison, a contract for a killing or beating US
- — Paul Glover, Words from the House of the Dead, 1974
- in horse racing, a betting receipt US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 64, 1951
- a playing card US
As in the expression “I held some good tickets”. - — Irv Roddy, Friday Night Poker: Penny Poker for Millions, p. 221, 1961
- LSD; a dose of LSD US, 1969
Another LSD-as-travel metaphor. - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 509, 1986
▶ just the ticket; that’s the ticket
exactly what is required UK, 1838- I love my little sawn-off Shotgun. She’s just the ticket for what I have to get up to[.] — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 77, 2002
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