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sold wolf tickets

sold wolf tickets is the simple past and past participle 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)

Questions about sold wolf tickets

What is sold wolf tickets the simple past and past participle of?
Sold wolf tickets is the simple past and past participle of sell wolf tickets.

Words near sold wolf tickets in the dictionary

  1. sold someone a bill of goods
  2. sold the dummy
  3. sold the family silver
  4. sold the pass
  5. sold up
  6. sold wolf tickets
  7. sold-out
  8. sold-out-ness
  9. soldadera
  10. soldaderas
  11. soldado

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