Meaning

noun a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)

noun a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.

noun a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)

originBorrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp,…

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