scalper

英美 ['skælpɚ]

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scalper 票贩子

来自 scalp,倒卖门票，-er,人。

scalper (n.): 1650s as a type of surgical instrument; 1760 as "one who removes scalps," agent noun from scalp (v.).

Meaning "person who re-sells tickets at unauthorized prices for a profit," 1869, American English; earliest reference is to theater tickets, but often used late 19c. of brokers who sold unused portions of railway tickets. [Railways charged less per mile for longer-distance tickets; therefore someone travelling from New York to Chicago could buy a ticket all the way to San Francisco, get out at Chicago and sell it to a scalper, and come away with more money than if he had simply bought a ticket to Chicago; the Chicago scalper would hold the ticket till he found someone looking for a ticket to San Francisco, then sell it to him at a slight advance, but for less than the official price.] Perhaps from scalp (v.); scalper was a generic term for "con man, cheater" in late 19c. Or perhaps the connecting sense is the bounty offered for scalps of certain destructive animals (attested in New England from 1703) and sometimes Indians (i.e., having only part of something, but still getting paid). Some, though, see a connection rather to scalpel, the surgical instrument.

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1. Another scalper said he'd charge $1000 for a $125 ticket.: 另一个票贩子说125美元的票他要价1,000美元。

2. We can try to buy some tickets outside the stadium from a scalper.: 我们可以试着在体育场外买黄牛票.

5. A scalper sold us tickets for seats right at near the courtside.: 一个票贩子卖给我们的票正好靠近球场的边缘.