hard-ticket

[ noun hahrd-tik-it; adjective hahrd-tik-it ]

noun
  1. a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.

  2. an entertainment for which seats are reserved in advance.

adjective
  1. of, relating to, or designating an entertainment for which tickets are in great demand: a hard-ticket musical.

Origin of hard-ticket

1
First recorded in 1845–50

Words Nearby hard-ticket

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How to use hard-ticket in a sentence

  • She understood her "Uncle Cy," and didn't mind being called a "hard ticket" by him.

    Cy Whittaker's Place | Joseph C. Lincoln
  • E—an extremely hard ticket—quarrelsome, venomous, and altogether thoroughly depraved.