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▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (by extension) One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
▸ noun: (gambling) A gambler who scalps.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ noun: A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
▸ noun: A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.
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scavager,
scutterer,
scarifier,
scamster,
scrapper,
skimmer,
decapitator,
scaler,
beheader,
scrimmager,
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