hot ticket

noun

: someone or something very popular : rage

Examples of hot ticket in a Sentence

The musical is this season's hot ticket. She's a hot ticket on the lecture circuit.
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This has led to packages for the race being a hot ticket item. Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025 The King & Conqueror screening was a hot ticket, with the Curzon Soho movie theater packed. Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025 Audiences have kept it a hot ticket, too. Dave Quinn, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025 This hot ticket show in NYC is from 17-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys and loosely retells the singer/composer’s upbringing in the West Side Manhattan neighborhood (fittingly nestled beside the Broadway district) back in the 1990s. Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot ticket

Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hot ticket was in 1936

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“Hot ticket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20ticket. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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