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The correct spelling is scalping.

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verb

Say it like: Sca-lpi-ng

The correct spelling is scalping. To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident. For example: "Tickets were being scalped for $300."

Usage Examples

Tickets were being scalped for $300.

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Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
  2. 2.To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
  3. 3.On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's 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. 4.To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
  5. 5.To remove the skin of.

noun

  1. 1.The action by which someone is scalped.
  2. 2.A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up.
  3. 3.A legitimate method of arbitrage of small price gaps created by the bid-ask spread.

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