scalper
English
Noun
scalper (plural scalpers)
- One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
- 2013, M. Elise Marubbio, Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
- Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers […]
- 2013, M. Elise Marubbio, Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
- (US, Canada) 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.
- Synonym: ticket tout (UK)
- We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
- (finance) 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 machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
- A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.
- Synonym: scalping-iron
Translations
one who sells tickets unofficially
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skal.pe/
Conjugation
Conjugation of scalper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | scalpant /skal.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | scalpé /skal.pe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | scalper | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | scalpant /skal.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpes /skalp/ |
scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpons /skal.pɔ̃/ |
scalpez /skal.pe/ |
scalpent /skalp/ |
| imperfect | scalpais /skal.pɛ/ |
scalpais /skal.pɛ/ |
scalpait /skal.pɛ/ |
scalpions /skal.pjɔ̃/ |
scalpiez /skal.pje/ |
scalpaient /skal.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | scalpai /skal.pe/ |
scalpas /skal.pa/ |
scalpa /skal.pa/ |
scalpâmes /skal.pam/ |
scalpâtes /skal.pat/ |
scalpèrent /skal.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | scalperai /skal.pə.ʁe/ |
scalperas /skal.pə.ʁa/ |
scalpera /skal.pə.ʁa/ |
scalperons /skal.pə.ʁɔ̃/ |
scalperez /skal.pə.ʁe/ |
scalperont /skal.pə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | scalperais /skal.pə.ʁɛ/ |
scalperais /skal.pə.ʁɛ/ |
scalperait /skal.pə.ʁɛ/ |
scalperions /skal.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
scalperiez /skal.pə.ʁje/ |
scalperaient /skal.pə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpes /skalp/ |
scalpe /skalp/ |
scalpions /skal.pjɔ̃/ |
scalpiez /skal.pje/ |
scalpent /skalp/ |
| imperfect2 | scalpasse /skal.pas/ |
scalpasses /skal.pas/ |
scalpât /skal.pa/ |
scalpassions /skal.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
scalpassiez /skal.pa.sje/ |
scalpassent /skal.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | scalpe /skalp/ |
— | scalpons /skal.pɔ̃/ |
scalpez /skal.pe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “scalper” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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