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ticket porter

ticket porter is the alternative form of ticket-porter.

Meaning of ticket-porter

Noun

ticket-porter (plural ticket-porters)

  1. (historical) A porter licensed by the City of London Corporation; an official street porter in London.
    • [H]is servant put in his hand a packet, which had been delivered by a ticket-porter at the door.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 83, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Forms of ticket porter

pluralticket porters

Questions about ticket porter

What is ticket porter the alternative form of?
Ticket porter is the alternative form of ticket-porter.

Words near ticket porter in the dictionary

  1. ticket office
  2. ticket offices
  3. ticket pocket
  4. ticket point mileage
  5. ticket point mileages
  6. ticket porter
  7. ticket porters
  8. ticket printer
  9. ticket printers
  10. ticket puncher
  11. ticket punchers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticket porter (page history and authors); ticket-porter (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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