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a paper promise that the universe owes you, signed by your own optimism
means A wager slip is the printed ticket recording the details of a bet—the stake, the odds, the chosen outcome—that you redeem if you win.
from A compound of two old words. "Wager" comes through Anglo-Norman "wageure," from "wager" meaning to pledge or stake, ultimately tied to the Germanic root behind "wed" and "gage" (a pledge)—so to wager is, etymologically, to wed yourself to a promise. "Slip" is the humble paper sense, from a Middle Dutch and Low German word for a small strip or cutting. The pairing is industrial-age bookmaking made literal: a pledge reduced to a torn scrap of paper.
- legal proof
- The slip, not your memory, is the binding contract
- lose it
- No slip, no payout, even on winners
- void rule
- Errors on the slip can cancel the entire bet
- collectible value
- Old winning slips sell at memorabilia auctions
- thermal ink
- Many fade blank if left in sunlight
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