ticketmate

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English

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Etymology

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From ticket +‎ -mate, modelled after running mate.

Noun

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ticketmate (plural ticketmates)

  1. Synonym of running mate
    • 1989, Peter W. Colby, John Kenneth White, New York State Today, page 10:
      Cuomo's ticketmate, Attorney General Robert Abrams, also defeated a little - known GOP opponent by nearly 600,000 votes in New York City, and in the rest of the state by 729,000 votes.
    • 2021, David W. Reinhard, The Republican Right since 1945:
      First, Reagan showed a flexibility and an imagination in finding a ticketmate that Barry Goldwater never evidenced.