ticker-tape parade
noun
US
: a parade in which small pieces of paper are thrown into the air to celebrate something, welcome someone, etc.
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Millions of New Yorkers lined the streets on June 19, 1945 to celebrate Eisenhower with a ticker-tape parade.
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Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
And the ticker-tape parade of summonses has spurred compliance.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2024
The Liberty will be celebrated with a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan; the date is expected to be announced Monday.
—Peter Weber, theweek, 21 Oct. 2024
This is the Manhattan street where the Mets had a grand ticker-tape parade after winning the 1969 World Series in Shea Stadium.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
While the proverbial window of opportunity never closes in the Bronx, frustration and urgency take on greater significance with each passing season that doesn’t produce a ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes.
—Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
New York gave him a ticker-tape parade, and MGM offered him the title role in the Tarzan movie that Fairbanks had rejected.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024
The city’s Board of Trade organized a ticker-tape parade, with more than 100,000 people lining the streets, cheering on the Marylander.
—Stan M. Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
Upon completing her historic swim, she was greeted with the first ticker-tape parade in New York City history to honor a woman—and, with 2 million attendees, one of the city’s largest up to that point.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
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Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
And the ticker-tape parade of summonses has spurred compliance.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2024
The Liberty will be celebrated with a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan; the date is expected to be announced Monday.
—Peter Weber, theweek, 21 Oct. 2024
This is the Manhattan street where the Mets had a grand ticker-tape parade after winning the 1969 World Series in Shea Stadium.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
While the proverbial window of opportunity never closes in the Bronx, frustration and urgency take on greater significance with each passing season that doesn’t produce a ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes.
—Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
New York gave him a ticker-tape parade, and MGM offered him the title role in the Tarzan movie that Fairbanks had rejected.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024
The city’s Board of Trade organized a ticker-tape parade, with more than 100,000 people lining the streets, cheering on the Marylander.
—Stan M. Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
Upon completing her historic swim, she was greeted with the first ticker-tape parade in New York City history to honor a woman—and, with 2 million attendees, one of the city’s largest up to that point.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
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