blue ticket

Yukon

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1926 quote.

Quotations

1926

[. . . it was a piece of blue pasteboard, absolutely blank, handed to a girl by the police . . . and it meant that she must get out in 24 hours.]

1938

She was notorious for "rolling," and finally the police "got the goods on her," and she received a summons, which she knew meant the blue ticket.

1958

A culprit was either given a "blue ticket" to leave town, or he was sentenced to hard labour on the government woodpile.