"wolf ticket" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See sell wolf tickets.",
  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jimmy Lerner, quoted in African American Slang: A Linguistic Description (2015",
          "text": "Following another fifteen-minute flurry of wolf tickets, young deputy Camel does the handcuff routine again."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Al Bermudez Pereira, Ruins of a Society and the Honorable: A Prison Story, →ISBN, page 88:",
          "text": "They have to project a tough-guy image so that others would think they're hardcore criminals, but in reality, it's to keep away potential extorters and possible booty bandits from violating them. I left him there in his cell and paid no mind to his offer of wolf tickets (Slang for tough talk).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tough talk; threat(s) or boast(s), especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone. (Chiefly used in the phrases sell wolf tickets and buy wolf tickets.)"
      ],
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          "threat",
          "threat"
        ],
        [
          "boast",
          "boast"
        ],
        [
          "sell wolf tickets",
          "sell wolf tickets"
        ],
        [
          "buy wolf tickets",
          "buy wolf tickets"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular, chiefly in the plural) Tough talk; threat(s) or boast(s), especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone. (Chiefly used in the phrases sell wolf tickets and buy wolf tickets.)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "woof ticket"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "wolf ticket"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "See sell wolf tickets.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wolf tickets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jimmy Lerner, quoted in African American Slang: A Linguistic Description (2015",
          "text": "Following another fifteen-minute flurry of wolf tickets, young deputy Camel does the handcuff routine again."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Al Bermudez Pereira, Ruins of a Society and the Honorable: A Prison Story, →ISBN, page 88:",
          "text": "They have to project a tough-guy image so that others would think they're hardcore criminals, but in reality, it's to keep away potential extorters and possible booty bandits from violating them. I left him there in his cell and paid no mind to his offer of wolf tickets (Slang for tough talk).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tough talk; threat(s) or boast(s), especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone. (Chiefly used in the phrases sell wolf tickets and buy wolf tickets.)"
      ],
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        [
          "threat",
          "threat"
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        [
          "boast",
          "boast"
        ],
        [
          "sell wolf tickets",
          "sell wolf tickets"
        ],
        [
          "buy wolf tickets",
          "buy wolf tickets"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular, chiefly in the plural) Tough talk; threat(s) or boast(s), especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone. (Chiefly used in the phrases sell wolf tickets and buy wolf tickets.)"
      ],
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        "in-plural"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "woof ticket"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wolf ticket"
}