1910 Dial 47 104: We are not quite so sure about ‘Ticket-skinner,’' said to hail from New York; it may be as expressive as ‘Ticket scalper,’ but we have never heard it used on this side of the ocean.at ticket-skinner (n.) under ticket, n.1
1918 Dial (Boston, MA) 64 391: We might as well admit that as talk this is ‘old hat’—like everything else we hear in ‘plays with a purpose’.at old hat, adj.