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Webster 1913 Edition
Scalper
Scalper
(skălp′ẽr)
, Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, scalps.
3.
A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market.
[Cant]
4.
A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets.
[Cant]
Webster 1828 Edition
Scalper
SCALP'ER
,Definition 2024
scalper
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 […]
- 2013, M. Elise Marubbio, Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
- (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
- We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
- (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).
Synonyms
- (one who scalps tickets): ticket tout (UK)
Translations
one who sells tickets unofficially
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skal.pe/
Verb
scalper
- (transitive) to scalp
Conjugation
Conjugation of scalper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | scalper | avoir scalpé | |||||
| gerund | en scalpant | en ayant scalpé | |||||
| present participle | scalpant /skal.pɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | scalpé /skal.pe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | scalpai /skal.pe/ |
scalpas /skal.pa/ |
scalpa /skal.pa/ |
scalpâmes /skal.pam/ |
scalpâtes /skal.pat/ |
scalpèrent /skal.pɛʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpes /skalp/ |
scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpions /skal.pjɔ̃/ |
scalpiez /skal.pje/ |
scalpent /skalp/ |
| imperfect1 |
scalpasse /skal.pas/ |
scalpasses /skal.pas/ |
scalpât /skal.pa/ |
scalpassions /skal.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
scalpassiez /skal.pa.sje/ |
scalpassent /skal.pas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | scalpe /skalp/ |
— | scalpons /skal.pɔ̃/ |
scalpez /skal.pe/ |
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