Found 2 items, similar to Straight ticket.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: straight ticket straight ticket n : a ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party [ant: split ticket]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Straight ticket Ticket \Tick"et\, n. [F. ['e]tiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local] [1913 Webster] He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] (b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. [1913 Webster] Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress. --J. Cotgrave. [1913 Webster] (c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket. [1913 Webster] (d) A label to show the character or price of goods. [1913 Webster] (e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like. [1913 Webster] (f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. --Sarah Franklin (1766). [1913 Webster] Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out. Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties. Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change. Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [Eng.] --Simmonds. Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [Eng.] --Simmonds. Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]