English-Finnish translations for scalper

• jobbari
  Ammattimaisesti tavaroita myyvät jobbarit ovat vallanneet nettihuutokaupat. (taloussanomat

Definition of scalper

• One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another
• One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them , often at inflated prices
• 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
• A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones

Examples

• We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”

Related words

• scalp
• scalpel
• scalping
• Scalpay
• odontoscalpophile
• scalp hair
• hair of the scalp