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The correct spelling is scalpers.
How to pronounce scalpers
noun
Say it like: Sca-lpe-rs
The correct spelling is scalpers. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another. For example: "We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”"
Usage Examples
“We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?””
Definition
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.
- 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.
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