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buy woof tickets

buy woof tickets is the alternative form of buy wolf tickets.

Meaning of buy wolf tickets

Verb

buy wolf tickets (third-person singular simple present buys wolf tickets, present participle buying wolf tickets, simple past and past participle bought wolf tickets)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) To call the bluff of, or respond to the threats or boasts of, someone who has been selling wolf tickets.
    • Dicky bought Terry's wolf tickets by responding with his own barbs and counterchallenges. "A'right, Mr. Motherfucker! I'm buying yo' wolf tickets! Now show me somethin', since you so big and bad," said Dicky […]2003, Elijah Anderson, A Place on the Corner, second, →ISBN, page 161

Forms of buy woof tickets

third-person singular presentbuys woof tickets
present participlebuying woof tickets
past participlebought woof tickets
pastbought woof tickets

Origin of buy woof tickets

See buy wolf tickets.

Questions about buy woof tickets

What is buy woof tickets the alternative form of?
Buy woof tickets is the alternative form of buy wolf tickets.

Words near buy woof tickets in the dictionary

  1. buy up
  2. buy when it snows and sell when it goes
  3. buy when it snows, sell when it goes
  4. buy with one's ears
  5. buy wolf tickets
  6. buy woof tickets
  7. buy yourself a hat
  8. buy, lie and sell high
  9. buy-back
  10. buy-backs
  11. buy-bust

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buy woof tickets (page history and authors); buy wolf tickets (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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