ticker : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape
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WordNet

• an electro-mechanical information receiving device connected by telegraphic wire to a stock exchange, and which prints out the latest transactions or news on stock exchanges, commonly found in the offices of stock brokers. By 1980 largely superseded by electronic stock quotation devices.

Webster 1913

• noun a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written
  

WordNet

• Tape from or designed to be used in a stock ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long.

Webster 1913

• A parade to honor a person, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes form the ticker tape originally thrown onto the parade when it passed stockbrokers' offices in lower Manhattan, before stock tickers became obsolete.

Webster 1913