Associations to the word «Scalper»

SCALPER, noun. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.

SCALPER, noun. (US) 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

SCALPER, noun. (finance) 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).

SCALPER, noun. Someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; "he got theater tickets through a scalper".