pawn ticket
Americannoun
noun
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
Redeem me like a pawn ticket worth little on the marketplace, but priceless in retrieving real value?
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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