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wolf ticket en · NOUN

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Etymology

See sell wolf tickets.

Meanings

1. (in-plural, qualifier: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:

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