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wolf ticket

wolf ticket noun: tough talk; threat(s) or boast(s), especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone. (Chiefly used in the phrases sell wolf tickets and buy wolf tickets.).

Noun

wolf ticket (plural wolf tickets)

  1. (in plural, African-American Vernacular) Tough talk; threat(s) or boast(s), especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone. (Chiefly used in the phrases sell wolf tickets and buy wolf tickets.)
    • Following another fifteen-minute flurry of wolf tickets, young deputy Camel does the handcuff routine again.2002, Jimmy Lerner, quoted in African American Slang: A Linguistic Description (2015)
    • They have to project a tough-guy image so that others would think they're hardcore criminals, but in reality, it's to keep away potential extorters and possible booty bandits from violating them. I left him there in his cell and paid no mind to his offer of wolf tickets (Slang for tough talk).2012, Al Bermudez Pereira, Ruins of a Society and the Honorable: A Prison Story, →ISBN, page 88

Forms of wolf ticket

pluralwolf tickets
alternative formwoof ticket

Origin of wolf ticket

See sell wolf tickets.

Questions about wolf ticket

What does wolf ticket mean?
Wolf ticket means tough talk; threat(s) or boast(s), especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone. (Chiefly used in the phrases sell wolf tickets and buy wolf tickets.).
What part of speech is wolf ticket?
Wolf ticket is a noun.
What is the plural of wolf ticket?
The plural of wolf ticket is wolf tickets.

Words near wolf ticket in the dictionary

  1. wolf snake
  2. wolf snakes
  3. wolf spider
  4. wolf spiders
  5. wolf teeth
  6. wolf ticket
  7. wolf tickets
  8. wolf tone
  9. wolf tones
  10. wolf tooth
  11. wolf tree

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