beer ticket
- noun
- /bɪr ˈtɪkɪt/
- Make sure you don't lose your beer ticket or you won't be able to get a free drink.
Examples
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Are you going to get a beer ticket for the concert?
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At the music festival, each guest received a beer ticket with their entry wristband.
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She traded her extra beer ticket for a slice of pizza.
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I bought a beer ticket at the festival.
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The festival admission includes a souvenir glass and two beer tickets for your first drinks.
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He received three beer tickets as part of his entrance fee to the beer festival.
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With every meal ordered at the event, you get a beer ticket for a complimentary drink.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is a straightforward composition: 'beer' (a drink) + 'ticket' (a voucher or token), so the meaning 'a voucher exchanged for a beer' is directly inferable from the constituents. This construction follows common noun + noun compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent in event contexts, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun beer ticket comes from the simple idea of a ticket you give to get a beer at a fair or festival. Event staff used paper 'tokens' to control drinks, so a beer ticket means a small voucher you exchange for a drink.