Ticker tape consists of long narrow strips of paper on which information such as stock exchange prices is printed by a machine. In American cities, people sometimes throw ticker tape from high windows as a way of celebrating and honouring someone in public.
A half million people watched the troops march in New York's ticker tape parade.
ticker tape in British English
noun
1. stock exchange
a continuous paper ribbon on which a tape machine automatically prints current stock quotations
2. ticker-tape reception
ticker tape in American English
US
paper tape used in a ticker (sense a) for recording telegraphed stock market quotations, etc.
Examples of 'ticker tape' in a sentence
ticker tape
Just slap everything on paper, let my brain spew like ticker tape.
Anita Anderson SOMEBODY (2002)
In New York people were dancing in the streets, throwing miles of ticker tape out Wall Street windows.