1. ticket - Noun
2. ticket - Verb
A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
A little note or notice.
A tradesman's bill or account.
A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
A label to show the character or price of goods.
A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. George Carlin
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. Tom Brokaw
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. Corrie Ten Boom
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry Kissinger
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket. Donald Barthelme
You cannot win a lottery without buying a ticket. African Proverb