scalper

scalper

English

Etymology

scalp +‎ -er

Noun

scalper (plural scalpers)

1. 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 […]

2. (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?”

3. (by extension) One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
4. (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.

5. (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).
6. A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
7. A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.

   Synonym: scalping-iron

Translations

one who sells tickets unofficially

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 黄牛 (zh) (huángniú), 票販子／票贩子 (piàofànzi) Czech: překupník m Dutch: iemand die toegangskaarten meestal duur doorverkoopt Finnish: jobbari (fi), lipputrokari, trokari (fi) French: vendeur à la sauvette m German: Kartenschwarzhändler m Hungarian: jegyüzér Indonesian: calo (id) Italian: bagarino (it) m Japanese: ダフ屋 (dafu-ya) Korean: 암표상(暗票商) (ampyosang) Latin: locārius m Macedonian: шиткач m (šitkač) Polish: konik (pl) m Portuguese: cambista (pt) m or f Romanian: bișnițar (ro) m, bișnițară f Russian: спекуля́нт театра́льными биле́тами (ru) m (spekuljánt teatrálʹnymi bilétami), спекуля́нт (ru) m (spekuljánt) Spanish: revendedor m, revendedora (es) f Swedish: skalperare Tatar: alıpsatar

one who resells items at inflated prices

Finnish: trokari (fi)

Anagrams

• carpels, clasper, craples, parcels, placers, reclasp

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French

Etymology

From English scalp +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skal.pe/

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Verb

scalper

1. (transitive) to scalp

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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.