Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SCALPER

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Definitions of SCALPER

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

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Examples of Using SCALPER in a Sentence

• In Los Angeles, Franklin Maurice Hatchett is a fast-talking, foul-mouthed, small-time car wash hustler and ticket scalper who owes money to a local mobster named Carmine.
• On June 3, 2016, the station's early afternoon host Jesse Modz attracted national press attention when he pranked a scalper who was reselling tickets to The Tragically Hip's Man Machine Poem Tour.
• In 2002, he was seen in The Job episode "Quitter", as Raim in the Charmed episode "Long Live the Queen" and as a ticket scalper in the Do Over episode "Rock 'n' Roll Parking Lot".
• Unlike in the United States, which has admitted and tried to correct problems with scalping, the entertainment and ticketing industry of Australia claims not to have a scalper or ticket sale problem despite many complaints from fans, who blame corporate scalpers being able to find ways to get the better tickets prior to the public sale.
• The carved worm lizard (Monopeltis scalper) is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae.

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