the ticket

noun

informal + somewhat old-fashioned

: the correct or most desirable thing : the thing that is needed or wanted

Compromise, now that's the ticket.

—often used in the phrase just the ticket

For a romantic dinner, candles are just the ticket.

Examples of the ticket in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lilith Fair over three summers – with headliners like McLachlan, Tracey Chapman, Paula Cole, Jewel, Patti Smith, Erykah Badu and Missy Elliot – earned the ticket sales and profitability to change forever how top-flight women artists were booked by promoters or played on rotation in radio. —Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025

Job-hopping was once the ticket to success, with workers bouncing from role to role to secure pay gains and bigger titles. —Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025

The following month, fan groups from West Ham and Liverpool united against the ticket prices. —Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025

Quite a few ZIP codes around Charlotte and North Carolina are showing up in the ticket sales, for instance. —Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for the ticket

• chicot
• cricket
• picket
• picot
• thicket
• wicket