pawn ticket
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5.6
- noun
- /pɔn ˈtɪkɪt/
- US
:
recibo de empeño
- But I'll put up the pawn ticket that redeems it against that wristwatch you're wearing.
Examples
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When you go to the pawn shop, they give you something called a pawn ticket, which is like a physical receipt and a contract for the transaction.
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When you take an item to the pawnbroker, you receive a pawn ticket that proves you left it there.
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- All right, give me the pawn ticket.
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The same number that was on the pawn ticket.
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- But I have the pawn ticket.
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Perhaps that's why the pawn ticket was in her name.
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But the pawn ticket, the locket?
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It's a pawn ticket.
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They couldn't find the clarinet and figured he must have pawned it, though the pawn ticket never surfaced amid his mess of papers.
Fiction book (1996) -
The pawn ticket helped her retrieve her grandmother's jewelry from the shop.
Synonyms
A small paper given when you leave a coat so you can get it back later
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun–noun compound: 'pawn' (an item left as collateral or the act of pawning) combined with 'ticket' (a small paper label/receipt). A B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it is the receipt/label issued by a pawnbroker for an item left as security, so the meaning is directly compositional and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
The noun pawn ticket comes from old pawnshops. When you left an item as a promise to pay back a 'loan', called a pawn, the shop gave a small paper, a ticket, that showed the item and the debt and you had to bring that paper to get your item back. So, pawn ticket means the receipt you must show to get your pawned item back.