scratch ticket
noun
variants
chiefly US scratch ticket
or chiefly British scratch card
: a card (such as a lottery ticket) having a small area covered by an opaque coating which may be scratched off to reveal hidden information (such as a prize)
won fifty dollars on a ten dollar scratch ticket
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Buy a bunch of scratch tickets and give them out to strangers along your way.
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Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Last month, an Arlington resident claimed the first $1 million top prize in the same scratch ticket game, according to the lottery commission.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Aug. 2025
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Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Last month, an Arlington resident claimed the first $1 million top prize in the same scratch ticket game, according to the lottery commission.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Scratch ticket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scratch%20ticket. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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