(travel) A ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not return. / (figuratively) A course of action from which there is no return.

(sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of ticker-tape parade.

(trading, finance) Paper tape on which a stock ticker, news ticker or similar device would print incoming information.

One who makes a tick mark. / A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.

A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed out incoming news stories on paper tape. / Any device for displaying incoming news stories.

A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available.

(slang, colloquial, humorous) Paper money. / A slip of paper which entitles the bearer to obtain a serving of beer.

(baseball, slang, rare) A foul ball which just brushes by the bat, making a ticking sound.

A legal summons issued for parking a motor vehicle in a place where such parking is restricted, or beyond the time paid for.

(sometimes methaphorical) To sign with a tick. / To list (create or recite a list). / (Canada, US, transitive) To annoy, aggravate. / (Britain, Australia, transitive) To reprimand.