English Explanatory Dictionary

scalper

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
  2. 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.
  3. One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
  4. A gambler who scalps.
  5. 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).
  6. A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
  7. A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.

Pronunciation

/ˈskælpɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scalper.wav

Word forms

scalper scalpers

Etymology

From scalp + -er.

Synonyms

ticket tout scalping-iron

Translations

Bulgarian: спекулант Chinese Mandarin: 黄牛 Chinese Mandarin: 票販子 /票贩子 Czech: překupník Finnish: jobbari Finnish: lipputrokari Finnish: trokari French: vendeur à la sauvette German: Kartenschwarzhändler Hungarian: jegyüzér Indonesian: calo Italian: bagarino Japanese: ダフ屋 Korean: 암표상 Latin: locārius Macedonian: шиткач Malay: ulat tiket Polish: konik Portuguese: cambista Romanian: bișnițar Romanian: bișnițară Russian: спекуля́нт театра́льными биле́тами Russian: спекуля́нт Spanish: revendedor Spanish: revendedora Swedish: skalperare Tatar: alıpsatar
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