scalper

Meaning of scalper

noun
  1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
  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.
    We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
  3. 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).
  4. A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
  5. A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.

Information about scalper

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of scalper is: scalpers.
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Hyphenation of scalper

scalper

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • scalper is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of scalper

carpels, clasper, craples, parcels, placers, reclasp

Words that rhyme with scalper

Alper, halper, Helper, Kelper, cohelper, helper, kelper, meethelper, skelper, yelper, gulper, pulper, sculper

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