Definitions for ticker tape

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

tick′er tape`(n.)

  1. the ribbon of paper on which a ticker prints quotations or news.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Telegraphy and Telephony

Origin of ticker tape:

1900–05, Amer.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. ticker tape(noun)

    a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written

Wiktionary

  1. ticker tape(Noun)

    Paper tape on which a stock ticker, news ticker or similar device would print incoming information.


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