wolf ticket n.
(US black) a threat; an empty boast; any form of falsehood; usu. as sell a wolf ticket
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Dock Ellis 177: It wouldn’t be the first time, or the last, that Dock and his teammates misunderstood each other, with some people taking wolf tickets for real, and others taking real for wolf tickets. | |
| Giveadamn Brown (1997) 147: ‘If you two came down here on a wolf ticket, it’s time for you to leave’. | |
| Homicide (1993) 489: A defendant is [...] performing in the courtroom, signifying, passing wolf tickets. | |
| You Got Nothing Coming 24: Following another fifteen-minute flurry of wolf tickets — which I take to be threats — young deputy Camel does the chain, handcuff and ankle shackle routine again. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Guardian G2 10 Jan. 11: The Wolf Tickets in the title of the new album are, he says, ‘really woof tickets, an expression that means “passing out, hard times and causing troubles”’. |
In phrases
1. to threaten, to intimidate.
| Afro American 10 May 31/5: The administration (Howard University--ed.) has been selling (wolf) tickets with their TRO’s (Temporary Restraining Orders) all year; and the students just cashed in one of those bad boys! | |
| When Shadows Fall 227: ‘Whyn’t you stop with that tough-guy shit, man. Sell them wolf-tickets to somebody else, ’cause they don’t faze me’. | |
| Maledicta V:1+2 (Summer + Winter) 266: A prisoner threatens another by selling a wolf ticket or ridicules by signifying, usually in rhyme. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 59: Shane had been selling wolf tickets, running off at the mouth to [...] this guy at school and gotten four of his front teeth knocked through the back of his head. | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 17: Barking like Dobermans selling wolf tickets about an upcoming beatdown. |
2. to boast, to brag.
| Seize the Time 407: Some sisters [...] would stand up, talk bad and loud, sell wolf tickets, and carry on. | |
| Jones Men 165: It’s plenty people selling wolf tickets. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 98: Sell a wolf ticket [...] refers to boasting or bluffing your way through a tight situation. [Ibid.] 253: sell a woof ticket 1. Boast. 2. Bluff. | |
| Prison Sl. 94: Wolf Tickets also Wolfin’ and Sellin’ Wolf Tickets Using threats and intimidation on other inmates. The wolf tickets are the actual threats. | |
| Rope Burns 175: You be sellin woof tickets, sheeuh. | |
| (con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 24: White boys be trippin’. Selling wolf tickets they can’t cash. |
3. (also sell wolf cookies) to lie, to talk nonsense; to trick with words.
| Jones Men 202: He just stands there sellin’ wolf tickets like a Goddam fool. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 98: I don’t sell no wolf tickets to nobody. Git you head broke dat way. [Ibid.] 253: sell a woof ticket […] 3. Talk nonsense. 4. Lie. | |
| Rope Burns 134: Con was glad the ref hadn’t called him on the gun, because he’d been selling wolf tickets on the nine-millimeter from the git. | |
| Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 selling woof tickets Trying to get someone to believe a falsity. Spreading lies. | |
| ‘That’s Got His Own’ Wire ser. 4 ep. 12 [TV script] Lester Freamon is not in the habit of selling wolf tickets. | |
| Donnybrook [ebook] ‘I sold that son of a bitch a mess of wolf cookies. He thought I’s as crazy as I was stupid. He didn’t know what to do’. | |
| Razorblade Tears 99: ‘Word is bond. I don’t sell no wolf tickets’. |