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lottery ticket

lottery ticket

38 1.2
A paper you buy that gives you a chance to win money in a game of luck
  • noun
translation icon : billete de lotería
  • After buying a lottery ticket, she hoped to win the jackpot.
  • buy a lottery ticket
  • purchase a lottery ticket
  • a state lottery ticket

Here's the thing, I bought a lottery ticket right here.

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Examples

  • If I were you, I'd go out and buy a stack of lottery tickets immediately.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The experimenter distributed the lottery tickets to each participant and then drew three tickets at random.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Yeah, chief, got the winning lottery ticket right here.

    Good Will Hunting (1997)

  • So you can buy a lottery ticket.

    Vampiyaz (2004)

  • I wanna buy a lottery ticket before the whole world gets off Work.

    The Black Sleep (1956)

  • And I'll take one lottery ticket.

    The Second Chance (2006)

  • Participants received one lottery ticket for each ten points they earned.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Today I bought a lottery ticket on my way to another AA meeting.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Jake wrapped a strong arm around me and announced that he had bought twenty lottery tickets.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Doug was halfway home before he realized that he had forgotten to buy a lottery ticket.

    Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

ticket
vslottery ticket
∞ 1.0

A printed or electronic pass for entering events and travel

is specifically about a chance to win a prize in a game
scratcher
vslottery ticket
4 4.8

A ticket you rub off to see if you won money

is the general form that gives a chance to win a prize in a game

Surface Forms

lottery ticket singular
lottery tickets plural

Morphology

lottery + ticket

The meaning 'a ticket that gives its holder a chance to win a prize in a lottery' is directly and transparently derivable from 'lottery' (a prize game) + 'ticket' (a document granting entry). This noun-noun compound follows a regular modifier–head pattern common across languages and would be understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Lottery ticket comes from the simple idea of buying a small paper called a ticket to join a public draw called a lottery. Because that paper might be picked for a prize, lottery ticket means 'a paper that gives its holder a chance to win a prize' today.