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sell woof tickets

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

Meaning of sell wolf tickets

Verb

sell wolf tickets (third-person singular simple present sells wolf tickets, present participle selling wolf tickets, simple past and past participle sold wolf tickets)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) To make threats or boasts, especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone.
    • It's plenty people selling wolf tickets, you know.1974, Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, page 165, quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang (2008)

Forms of sell woof tickets

third-person singular presentsells woof tickets
present participleselling woof tickets
past participlesold woof tickets
pastsold woof tickets

Origin of sell woof tickets

See sell wolf tickets.

Questions about sell woof tickets

What is sell woof tickets the alternative form of?
Sell woof tickets is the alternative form of sell wolf tickets.

Words near sell woof tickets in the dictionary

  1. sell the family silver
  2. sell the news
  3. sell the pass
  4. sell up
  5. sell wolf tickets
  6. sell woof tickets
  7. sell-by date
  8. sell-by dates
  9. sell-down
  10. sell-downs
  11. sell-off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sell woof tickets (page history and authors); sell 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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