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variants:
chiefly US scratch ticket or chiefly British scratch card
Definition of scratch ticket
: 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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The first known use of scratch ticket was in 1977
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