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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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Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.
Due to the fact that the scalper knifes are mounted on a parallelogram, the cutting height of the sugar beet topsis automatically adjusted the height of each individual beet.
As we walked and walked in search of the lone open ticket window, a scalper cornered us.
In the context of sports arbitrage betting a scalping trader or scalper looks to make lots of small profits, which in time can add up.
In his early 20s, Greco supported himself dancing in cabarets and running show tickets for a Broadway scalper.
On Pratt Street, a scalper tried to sell game tickets to the protestors marching toward the stadium.

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