Scalper

Quick meaning: Scalper is a noun meaning One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.

Meaning

One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
2. (gambling) A gambler who scalps.
3. A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
4. A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.
5. (US, Canada) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices.
6. (finance) A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).

Example Sentences

Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers […]

We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”

The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.

Although 4.1 million tickets were sold for the 2023 shows—including over 2 million on the first day, a new record—scalpers jacked up prices on the secondary market to more than $22,000.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scavager, scutterer, scarifier, scrapper, skimmer, decapitator.

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