喜樂美語
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    A scalper is someone who buys tickets for a concert, a match, or a show and then sells them again at a much higher price. The extra money is the point. People usually say this with dislike — it feels unfair to fans. In American English this is the common word; in Britain you may also hear tout. Though actually, in money markets a scalper can also be a trader who takes tiny, quick profits all day — same “thin slice” idea — but the meaning you need first is the ticket seller.

    黃牛（賣高價票的人；台灣就是這樣叫）

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組成From scalp + -er. Here to scalp means to take a thin profit (and, older and darker, to take the skin from a head). The ticket seller is pictured as peeling off a layer of money.

同家族的字

  • scalpthe verb this agent noun is built from
  • scalpingthe act of selling tickets this way

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

scalpernoun/ˈskælpɚ/

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    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.

    • We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
    • Although 4.1 million tickets were sold for the 2023 shows—including over 2 million on the first day, a new record—scalpers jacked up prices on the secondary market to more than $22,000.
  • 3

    One who scalps any other item with limited availability.

  • 4

    gamblinggamesA 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.
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    businessfinanceA 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.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。