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Ticket profiteer
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scalper
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Complimentary tickets to the event were sold by scalpers at five dollars each. ▪ Gretzky had none the less produced exactly the sort of moment that enabled scalpers to fetch hundreds of dollars for tickets. ▪ Ken Behring might ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scalper (born October 31, 1967), is a London -bred rapper, producer and songwriter of Pakistani descent, who is now based in Auckland, New Zealand .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scalper \Scalper\ (sk[a^]lp"[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, scalps. (Surg.) Same as Scalping iron , under Scalping . A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market. [Cant] A person ...
Usage examples of scalper.
On the way back from the Greenwood County Courthouse, he would pop in on his mother, who was at a nursing home along the way, or visit Sparky, a scalper who was holding tickets for a Hands game.
Security had been beefed up, but the scalpers were still busy at their trade.
Lawyers of a kind move about hustling clients in the subverted tones of scalpers, while the state defenders shout out the names of persons whom they have never met and whom they will be defending in a moment.
One of the hottest events of the Synod social season, tickets to the event were as scarce as hen's teeth and scalpers were obtaining record prices for the few still available.
Rumor had it that scalpers were already commanding fifty dollars a ticket, and we still had more than forty-eight hours to go.
When news of the second one spread, the merchants and ticket scalpers would find out how much of a damper death could put on their profits.
The Elshies have quite a way of handling people who cross them and they've already made it perfectly clear that scalpers will be handled severely.