The Clue
Half a ticket (4 letter answer)
The Answer
STUB
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Notes
The answer STUB is common and appears about once every 225 puzzles.
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Butt
Counterfoil
Pulverize
___ a toe
Check mate
Checkbook record
Concert souvenir
Concertgoer's keepsake
Evidence of an admission
Hit, as the toe
Intermission pass
Last of a cigar
Last of a claro
Last of a corona
Movie souvenir
Part of a checkbook
Part to keep
Part of a ticket
Pitiful pencil
Proof of attendance
Rain check
Receipt of a sort
Short end
The short end
Theater keepsake
Theater souvenir
Ticket part
Ticket remainder
Usher's request
Check writer's record
Havana's last section
Hit, as one's toe
It's shown to the usher
Much-used pencil
Not much of a pencil
Part of a torn ticket
Proof of purchase, maybe
Short end of the stick
Very short pencil
It's returned by a ticket-taker
Throwaway found on 42d St.
Definition
STUB as a noun:
1. a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
2. (nub, stub) = a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil"
3. (stub, ticket stub) = a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
4. (stub, check stub, counterfoil) = the part of a check that is retained as a record
5. (butt, stub) = the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
STUB as a verb:
1. pull up (weeds) by their roots
2. extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now"
3. clear of weeds by uprooting them; "stub a field"
4. strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object; "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken"