scalper

1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.

2. (Канада, США)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.

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

3. (ширше)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.

1. I bought tickets from a scalper.

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2. Tom bought tickets from a scalper.

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3. Tom is a scalper.

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4. The tickets I bought from that scalper turned out to be fake.

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5. Scalpers outside the stadium were offering tickets at a hefty markup.

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