Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

one-way ticket to palookaville

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

Syllables: one-way tick-et -to -palookav-ille
IPA

47

Scrabble Score

26

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something that results in failure or obscurity, with no chance at redemption; a dead end.

Example Sentences

"[…"
"Proper German gentlemen harbored a particular distaste for boxing and its two-fisted muscularity, considering it lower class and bestial, a one way ticket to Palookaville."
"[…] History is […] not symmetrical; you don't necessarily go down in the same sequence backward. What we might get instead could be just a one-way ticket to Palookaville instead of getting to relive the sixteenth century."
"Well, my one-way ticket to palookaville turned out to be the chairmanship of the select Committee on public Administration. it had never been a particularly prestigious select Committee, but I was going to chair it and I could make of it what I wanted."

Etymology

From a line in the 1954 film On the Waterfront.

Inflected Forms

one-way tickets to Palookaville (plural)

Questions

What does one-way ticket to palookaville mean?: Something that results in failure or obscurity, with no chance at redemption; a dead end.
Where does one-way ticket to palookaville come from?: From a line in the 1954 film On the Waterfront.

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