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ticker tape
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ticker tape
ticker-tape reception (or parade) (mainly in New York) the showering of the motorcade of a distinguished politician, visiting head of state, etc., with ticker tape as a sign of welcome


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Hicks, a prominent columnist for the New York Amsterdam News, claimed that his paper worked behind the scenes to push for a ticker-tape parade so that the Queen of Tennis could greet her public.
Gertrude Ederle came home to New York to a ticker-tape parade with two million people lining the sidewalks and stuffing the windows of all the skyscrapers, showering her with streamers and chanting, "Trudy
Part and parcel of Broadway's reconstruction is its formal recognition as the "Canyon of Heroes," commemorating all the ticker-tape parades that have marched up Broadway, from the 1886 dedication of the Statue of Liberty to the U.
 
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