buy wolf tickets

verb

To call the bluff of, or respond to the threats or boasts of, someone who has been selling wolf tickets.

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Meanings

verbbuy wolf tickets (third-person singular simple present buys wolf tickets, present participle buying wolf tickets, simple past and past participle bought wolf tickets)

present singular third person buys wolf tickets · participle present buying wolf tickets · participle past bought wolf tickets · past bought wolf tickets · alternative buy woof tickets

  1. African-American VernacularTo call the bluff of, or respond to the threats or boasts of, someone who has been selling wolf tickets.

    Dicky bought Terry's wolf tickets by responding with his own barbs and counterchallenges. "A'right, Mr. Motherfucker! I'm buying yo' wolf tickets! Now show me somethin', since you so big and bad," said Dicky […]

    2003, Elijah Anderson, A Place on the Corner, second, →ISBN, page 161

Origin

See sell wolf tickets.

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