ticket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A printed piece of paper that shows you have paid to travel or to enter a place.

   I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday.

2. 2
   noun

   An official notice ordering you to pay a fine, usually for a driving or parking offense.

   She got a parking ticket for leaving her car too long.

3. 3
   noun

   A request logged so that a problem or complaint can be tracked and handled.

   He opened a support ticket about the broken website.

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.

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