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pawn ticket

American  

noun

  1. a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.


pawn ticket British  

noun

  1. a receipt for goods pawned

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of pawn ticket

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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The police lack the resources to study every pawn ticket for this item.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2020

Searching for the stolen diamond brooch, the police heard of a man attempting to sell a pawn ticket for exactly that, and they thought they had hit the jackpot.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

If the customer doesn’t pay in three days, the matao takes the valuables to a licensed pawnshop—recovering his money—and passes on the pawn ticket to the original borrower, says Ho.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 26, 2014

Good sequence: Barrymore and Colbert eyeing each other at a musicale which she has crashed by palming off a pawn ticket as a card of admission.

From Time Magazine Archive

The terrified mother pawned the cornet immediately and destroyed the pawn ticket.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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