scalper
English
Noun
scalper (plural scalpers)
- One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
- 2013, M. Elise Marubbio, Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory:
- Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers […]
- (US, Canada) 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.
- Synonym: (UK) ticket tout
- We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
- 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time:
- Although 4.1 million tickets were sold for the 2023 shows—including over 2 million on the first day, a new record—scalpers jacked up prices on the secondary market to more than $22,000.
- (by extension) One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
- (gambling) A gambler who scalps.
- 1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 102:
- The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.
- (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).
- A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
- A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.
- Synonym: scalping-iron
Translations
one who sells tickets unofficially
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skal.pe/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of scalper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | scalper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | scalpant /skal.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | scalpé /skal.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpes /skalp/ |
scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpons /skal.pɔ̃/ |
scalpez /skal.pe/ |
scalpent /skalp/ |
| imperfect | scalpais /skal.pɛ/ |
scalpais /skal.pɛ/ |
scalpait /skal.pɛ/ |
scalpions /skal.pjɔ̃/ |
scalpiez /skal.pje/ |
scalpaient /skal.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | scalpai /skal.pe/ |
scalpas /skal.pa/ |
scalpa /skal.pa/ |
scalpâmes /skal.pam/ |
scalpâtes /skal.pat/ |
scalpèrent /skal.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | scalperai /skal.pə.ʁe/ |
scalperas /skal.pə.ʁa/ |
scalpera /skal.pə.ʁa/ |
scalperons /skal.pə.ʁɔ̃/ |
scalperez /skal.pə.ʁe/ |
scalperont /skal.pə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | scalperais /skal.pə.ʁɛ/ |
scalperais /skal.pə.ʁɛ/ |
scalperait /skal.pə.ʁɛ/ |
scalperions /skal.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
scalperiez /skal.pə.ʁje/ |
scalperaient /skal.pə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpes /skalp/ |
scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpions /skal.pjɔ̃/ |
scalpiez /skal.pje/ |
scalpent /skalp/ |
| imperfect2 | scalpasse /skal.pas/ |
scalpasses /skal.pas/ |
scalpât /skal.pa/ |
scalpassions /skal.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
scalpassiez /skal.pa.sje/ |
scalpassent /skal.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | scalpe /skalp/ |
— | scalpons /skal.pɔ̃/ |
scalpez /skal.pe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “scalper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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