# sell wolf tickets

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To make threats or boasts, especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone.

## Etymology
From wolf ticket/woof ticket, from woofing (“idly boasting”), from woofing (“(emptily/harmlessly) barking like a dog”). Woof ticket/wolf ticket is attested since the 1960s.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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