as in ticket
a small sheet of plastic, paper, or paperboard showing that the bearer has a claim to something (as admittance) those pasteboards I got from a scalper cost me four times their face value

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Recent Examples of pasteboard It is filled with antiques from the earliest period when the family of Francis Watlington — a sea captain, harbor master and state legislator — resided here, including a game table set with 19th century pasteboard playing cards. Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024 Her three magnificent novels about the life and times of Thomas Cromwell—Henry VIII’s fixer-in-chief, who oversaw England’s rupture with the Church of Rome—stripped the robes of cliché and hindsight from one of history’s pasteboard ogres. Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022 As MacRumors reminds us, Apple introduced a privacy feature in iOS 16 which forces apps to ask permission before accessing your pasteboard to paste content from other apps. Jacob Siegal, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022 In all, the Oroville Lake Marinas company removed 130 houseboats; floating recreation palaces such as the Monte-Carol and La Bella Vita now sit in a parking lot on stacks of pasteboard props. Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 June 2021 Tickets are all mobile — no pasteboard stubs to keep for the scrapbook anymore. Madalyn Mendoza, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2021 If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, white bread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic. Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2020 The film draws on Sayat Nova’s imagery: angels with flat halos and wooden wings, a pasteboard cloud descending as a vision, the constant repetition of key props including books, silver balls and ornate rugs. New York Times, 24 May 2018 The thin strips of pasteboard nailed to the walls was a ramshackle form of insulation, and textbook tinder. Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasteboard
Noun
  • Performers raised the roof and so did ticket prices.
    Scott Heller, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Fans flocking to the new park this summer are set to drive up travel demand to Orlando, with an increase in flight capacity and ticket prices to the theme park hub compared to last year.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Theodore also made a handful of nice defensive plays in the opening frame, neutralizing what looked like dangerous rush chances with strong stick checks.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Through involuntary collections, the government can garnish wages, withhold tax refunds, and seize portions of Social Security checks and other benefit payments to go toward paying back the federal loan.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 1 May 2025

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“Pasteboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasteboard. Accessed 15 May. 2025.

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