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SCALPER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

he got theater tickets through a scalper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

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