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What (who) is Scalper - definition
scalper
(scalpers)
A scalper is someone who sells tickets outside a sports ground or theatre, usually for more than their original value. (AM; in BRIT, use tout
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Another scalper said he'd charge $1000 for a $125 ticket.
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Scalper
·noun One who, or that which, scalps.
II. Scalper ·noun A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets.
III. Scalper ·noun ·same·as Scalping iron, under Scalping.
IV. Scalper ·noun A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market.
V. Scalper ·noun A person who buys tickets for entertainment or sports events and sells them at a profit, often at a much higher price. Also, ticket scalper.
scalp
ANATOMICAL AREA BORDERED BY THE FACE ANTERIORLY AND THE NECK TO THE SIDES AND POSTERIORLY
Scalp hair; Scalpus
(scalps, scalping, scalped)
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Your scalp is the skin under the hair on your head.
He smoothed his hair back over his scalp...
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2.
To scalp someone means to remove the skin and hair from the top of their head.
He pretended to scalp me with his sword.
VERB: V n
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A scalp is the piece of skin and hair that is removed when someone is scalped.
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If someone scalps tickets, they sell them outside a sports ground or theatre, usually for more than their original value. (AM; in BRIT, use tout
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He was trying to pick up some cash scalping tickets.
VERB: V n
Examples of use of Scalper
1. My dad tried every way he could to get tickets, short of getting scalped by some scalper, but tickets just weren‘t available.
2. On April 15, the Domodedovo court sentenced a former Sibir employee and a ticket scalper to 18 months each in a penal colony for their role in the bombings.
3. "He may be guilty, but the main guilt is with those in charge of airline security." Armen Arutyunyan, a ticket scalper who helped the Chechen women secure tickets, and Nikolai Korenkov, a flight attendant who helped one woman board a plane after check–in had ended, have been sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison each.