Usually means: Reseller buying, selling for profit.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word scalper:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scalper: Merriam-Webster
  3. scalper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scalper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scalper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scalper, scalper: Wordnik
  7. scalper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scalper: Wiktionary
  9. scalper: Dictionary.com
  10. scalper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. scalper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Scalper (musician), Scalper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Scalper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. scalper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. scalper: Rhymezone
  16. Scalper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. scalper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. scalper: FreeDictionary.org
  19. scalper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. scalper: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalper: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. scalper: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Scalper: bizterms.net
  5. Scalper: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  6. scalper: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scalper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. scalper: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scalper (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. Scalper: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scalpers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
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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