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Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe holding the World Cup trophy, Jill Ellis, and Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrate on a parade float during the 2015 U.S. women's soccer team ticker tape parade in New York City.
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Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe holding the World Cup trophy, Jill Ellis, and Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrate on a parade float during the 2015 U.S. women's soccer team ticker tape parade in New York City.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup: U.S. celebration Carli Lloyd (center left) and Megan Rapinoe (holding the trophy aloft) celebrating the U.S. team's Women's World Cup title during a ticker-tape parade in New York City, 2015.

A ticker-tape parade is a celebration where small pieces of paper are thrown into the air. These paper pieces are ticker tape, which is the paper ribbon that a telegraphic ticker prints information on. The first stock ticker was developed at the New York Stock Exchange in 1867 to report securities transactions. The very first ticker-tape parade occurred spontaneously in New York City in 1886, when people showered ticker tape onto a parade celebrating the dedication of the Statue of Liberty.123

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