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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 cost
Example:
he got theater tickets through a scalper
Classified under:
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)