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Ticket seller at a sellout
Answer for the clue "Ticket seller at a sellout ", 7 letters:
scalper
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Wikipedia
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 .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s as a type of surgical instrument; 1760 as "one who removes scalps," agent noun from scalp (v.).\n \nMeaning "person who re-sells tickets at unauthorized prices for a profit," 1869, American English; earliest reference is to theater tickets, but often ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another. 2 (context US English) 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 ...
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.