scalper
(noun) someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; “he got theater tickets through a scalper”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scalper (plural scalpers)
One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
(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.
Synonym: ticket tout (UK)
(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).
A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.
Synonym: scalping-iron
• carpels, clasper, craples, parcels, placers, reclasp
Source: Wiktionary
Scalper, n.
1. One who, or that which, scalps.
2. (Surg.)
Definition: Same as Scalping iron, under Scalping.
3. A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market. [Cant]
4. A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets. [Cant]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 November 2024
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
