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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


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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

Surprise ending of "A Fair Exchange" is that after a hard day's finagling, Marcus' final trade brings him a pawn ticket which proves to be for the very same stone he started out with.

From Time Magazine Archive

Together, Nye and the Las Vegas detective had checked every pawn ticket issued during the past month.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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