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What is a scalper?

What is a scalper? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
  2. (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. (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).
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On Pratt Street, a scalper tried to sell game tickets to the protestors marching toward the stadium.
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