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woof ticket

woof ticket is the alternative form of wolf ticket.

Meaning of wolf ticket

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)

Forms of woof ticket

pluralwoof tickets

Origin of woof ticket

See sell wolf tickets.

Questions about woof ticket

What is woof ticket the alternative form of?
Woof ticket is the alternative form of wolf ticket.

Words near woof ticket in the dictionary

  1. wooer
  2. wooers
  3. wooes
  4. woof
  5. woof one's cookies
  6. woof ticket
  7. woof tickets
  8. woof-woof
  9. woof-woofs
  10. woofe
  11. woofed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woof ticket (page history and authors); wolf ticket (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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