SCALPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scalper mean? 

• SCALPER (noun)
  The noun SCALPER has 1 sense:

1. someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost

  Familiarity information: SCALPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he got theater tickets through a scalper

Hypernyms ("scalper" is a kind of...):

plunger; speculator (someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scalper"):

ticket tout; tout (someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit)

Derivation:

scalp (sell illegally, as on the black market)