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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As a part of that January 23, 2026 hot ticket event, the very first Robert Redford Luminary Award will be rolled out and given to Ed Harris and Gyula Gazdag. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025 The show was transcendent—the rare quasi-religious, non-narrative, half-in-Latin hot ticket—but, when a few members in the company came down with COVID, Ars Nova was forced to cancel the final week of performances. Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 Beauty continues to remain a hot ticket item for consumers, even as competition across the space heats up. Kori Hale, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Earlier that morning, Wang alum Nicholas Aburn’s debut at Area will be a hot ticket. Ari Stark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 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 16 Nov. 2025.

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