smart ticket

noun

A certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money.

First used 18th c.
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Meanings

nounsmart ticket (plural smart tickets)

plural smart tickets

  1. historicalnauticalA certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money.First known use 18th c.

    [T]he commodore pulled out his purse, saying, “Here, you bitch's baby, here's something better than a smart ticket”; and threw it at his silent deliverer, who received and pocketed his bounty […].

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
  2. An e-ticket.
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