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ticker tape

noun

  1. the ribbon of paper on which a ticker prints quotations or news.


ticker tape

noun

  1. stock exchange a continuous paper ribbon on which a tape machine automatically prints current stock quotations
  2. ticker-tape reception or ticker-tape parade
    (mainly in New York) the showering of the motorcade of a distinguished politician, visiting head of state, etc, with ticker tape as a sign of welcome
“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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ticker tape1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
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Example Sentences

When they applied a voltage, levels of the trigger sequence were elevated and recorded into the DNA ticker tape.

Imagine an mRNA as a long ticker tape carrying instructions.

One of the earliest ticker-tape parades was for Teddy Roosevelt when he returned from an African safari in 1910.

We certainly should not hold a ticker-tape parade for anybody else before then, no matter who wins what championship.

But that is not the same as a ticker-tape parade offering thanks specifically to those who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

If I brought down the Mob,” the Rev. Al Sharpton demanded on Monday, “I want my ticker tape parade.

Also, arrangements could be made with some reliable brokerage house to have him supplied with the ticker tape each day.

He is one of those born newspaper men who could not live out of sight of the ticker-tape, and the copy-hook and the proof-sheet.

Maxwell turned half around, with his hands full of papers and ticker tape.

It rained ticker tape for hours, and people in offices tore up telephone books and added the bits of paper to the rainstorm.

There were plenty of whistles blowing, plenty of ticker tape, and parades for the returning hero.

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