scalper

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
    — Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers […]
  2. 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. Canada,US
    — We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
  3. One who scalps any other item with limited availability. broadly
  4. A gambler who scalps.
    — The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.
  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.

词形变化

scalpers plural

词源

Etymology tree
English scalp
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English scalper
From scalp + -er.
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