adj. prenom. same as expensive, but in an absolute sense; -- referring to items of a type which are all expensive, such as automobiles, refrigerators, or large-screen television sets. The roaring stock market led to an increase in the purchase of big-ticket items during the 1996 Christmas season. cheap
Syn. -- costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (24 Stat. 379), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being “obviously within the commuting principle.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Struck with horror; horrified. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Stick. Stuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

And in the sand her ship sticked so fast. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

They sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses. [ Colloq. ] Tackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Same as Paster, 2. [ Political Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ticking. [ R. ] R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Tick. ] 1. One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically prints off stock quotations (
stock ticker), market report, or other news on a paper ribbon or “tape.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. an electronic instrument receiving information by transmision from a remote source and displaying it in readable fashion, not necessarily on paper tape (e.g. on a video display terminal or moving ribbon of electronically controlled lights). [ PJC ]

4. The heart. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

Ticker tape Tape from or designed to be used in a stock ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long. --
Stock ticker, an electro-mechanical information receiving device connected by telegraphic wire to a stock exchange, and which prints out the latest transactions or news on stock exchanges, commonly found in the offices of stock brokers. By 1980 such devices were largely superseded by electronic stock quotation devices. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

A parade to honor a person or persons, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes form the ticker tape originally thrown onto the parade when it passed stockbrokers' offices in lower Manhattan, before stock tickers became obsolete; in subsequent years other types of waste paper were used to serve the honorary function, as well as paper tape distributed specifically for the purpose of being thrown in such a parade. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. étiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit. ] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) A little note or notice. [ Obs. or Local ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A tradesman's bill or account. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress. J. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) A label to show the character or price of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

(f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. Sarah Franklin (1766). [ 1913 Webster ]

Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out. --
Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties. --
Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change. --
Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [ Eng. ] Simmonds. --
Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [ Eng. ] Simmonds. --
Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticketing. ] 1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called in allusion to Tyburn, formerly a place of execution in England. ] (O. Eng. Law) A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices. [ 1913 Webster ]