scalper

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
2. (Canada, 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.
3. (broadly) One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
4. A gambler who scalps.
5. 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.

Sinonimai

bootlegger

dealer

moonshiner

sledger

Vertimai

Kartenschwarzhändler

vendeur à la sauvette

εκδέρων την κόμην

bagarino

cambista

revendedor

المستغلّ

revendedora

Skalpierer

Etimologija (Anglų k.)

From scalp + -er.