selling 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)