English Explanatory Dictionary

wolf's ticket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In tsarist and Stalinist-era Russia, a restricted internal passport issued to those suspected or convicted of political or other crimes which limited where they could travel and reside.

Word forms

wolf's ticket wolf's tickets

Etymology

Calque of Russian во́лчий биле́т (vólčij bilét), calque of Polish wilczy bilet.

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