Loading page
say it: SKAL-pur
scalper is a noun meaning "someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost". It is pronounced /ˈskælpɚ/ — SKAL-pur. It carries one recorded sense.
someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost
“he got theater tickets through a scalper”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scalper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.