ticker tape

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

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Questions about ticker tape

What does ticker tape mean?

ticker tape means "a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written".

Is ticker tape a common word?

ticker tape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.