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wolf's ticket

wolf's ticket noun: in tsarist and Stalinist-era Russia, a restricted internal passport issued to those suspected or convicted of political or other crimes which limited where they could travel and reside.

Noun

wolf's ticket (plural wolf's tickets)

  1. (historical, rare) In tsarist and Stalinist-era Russia, a restricted internal passport issued to those suspected or convicted of political or other crimes which limited where they could travel and reside.
    • […] now, we had narrowly escaped a terrible danger : absolutely certain expulsion with wolf's tickets two days before our graduation from the gymnasium.1967, Konstantin Paustovsky, The Story of a Life, volume 3, page 241

Forms of wolf's ticket

pluralwolf's tickets

Origin of wolf's ticket

Calque of Russian во́лчий биле́т (vólčij bilét), calque of Polish wilczy bilet.

Questions about wolf's ticket

What does wolf's ticket mean?
Wolf's ticket means in tsarist and Stalinist-era Russia, a restricted internal passport issued to those suspected or convicted of political or other crimes which limited where they could travel and reside.
What part of speech is wolf's ticket?
Wolf's ticket is a noun.
What is the plural of wolf's ticket?
The plural of wolf's ticket is wolf's tickets.

Words near wolf's ticket in the dictionary

  1. wolf's head
  2. wolf's heads
  3. wolf's milk
  4. wolf's peach
  5. wolf's peaches
  6. wolf's ticket
  7. wolf's whelp
  8. wolf's-claw
  9. wolf's-fist
  10. wolf's-fists
  11. wolf's-foot

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