ticket tout

1. 1.

   someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

   Synonymstout

   Broaderscalper

   United Kingdom

Questions about ticket tout

What does ticket tout mean?

ticket tout means "someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit".

What is another word for ticket tout?

Close synonyms include tout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ticket tout a common word?

ticket tout is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.