bug ticket
n.— «Dice tables are covered in this robust Chattahoochee river town. Slot machines have disappeared. And if any bug tickets—lottery slips—are written, they are passed under the counter.» —“Alabama City Tames Down” by Jim Thomasson in Phenix City, Ala. Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Mich.) May 17, 1951. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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