ticker-tape parade
Example Sentences
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The ticker remained an indispensable investing tool into the 1970s, but the ticker-tape parade outlasted it.
Broadway: This is the Manhattan street where the Mets had a grand ticker-tape parade after winning the 1969 World Series in Shea Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times
Later she was given a ticker-tape parade in New York and was decorated by US President Eisenhower.
From BBC
The memorable lead that followed: “Only a grinch cavils when, in a burst of hometown boosterism, the mayor of New York says with a straight face that 3.5 million people turned out for the Yankees’ ticker-tape parade.”
From Seattle Times
So we'll have to wait a bit for James to get her virtual ticker-tape parade for kicking the most hated man in New York real estate out of town.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
