noun
Meaning 1
One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scalper
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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/ˈskælpɚ/
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
Examples
- We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ticket tout
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
Meaning 4
A gambler who scalps.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: gambling, games
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noun
Meaning 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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scalping-iron
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he got theater tickets through a scalper
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: speculator, plunger
Narrower terms: tout, ticket tout
History
Etymology
From scalp + -er.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: спекулант (spekulant) — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Chinese Mandarin: 黄牛 (huángniú) — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Chinese Mandarin: 票販子 /票贩子 (piàofànzi) — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Czech: překupník — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Finnish: jobbari — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Finnish: lipputrokari — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Finnish: trokari — one who sells tickets unofficially
- French: vendeur à la sauvette — one who sells tickets unofficially
- German: Kartenschwarzhändler — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Hungarian: jegyüzér — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Indonesian: calo — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Italian: bagarino — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Japanese: ダフ屋 (dafu-ya) — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Korean: 암표상 (ampyosang) — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Latin: locārius — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Macedonian: шиткач (šitkač) — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Malay: ulat tiket — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Polish: konik — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Portuguese: cambista — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Romanian: bișnițar — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Romanian: bișnițară — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Russian: спекуля́нт театра́льными биле́тами (spekuljánt teatrálʹnymi bilétami) — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Russian: спекуля́нт (spekuljánt) — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Spanish: revendedor — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Spanish: revendedora — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Swedish: skalperare — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Tatar: alıpsatar — one who sells tickets unofficially
- Bulgarian: спекулант (spekulant) — one who resells items at inflated prices
- Bulgarian: търгаш (tǎrgaš) — one who resells items at inflated prices
- Finnish: trokari — one who resells items at inflated prices
- Spanish: revendón — one who resells items at inflated prices