ticket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the appropriate or desirable thing

   this car could be just the ticket for a small family

2. 2
   noun

   A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

   I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?

3. 3
   noun

   A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.

   "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."

4. 4
   noun

   A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.

   Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.

5. 5
   noun

   A small note or notice.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).

   Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.

7. 7
   noun

   A visiting card.

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   A warrant.

   […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

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.