Scalper

But the greatest new addition has been the introduction of a short term scalper strategy that works on 4 currency pairs.

Plus, it's the hottest ticket in town, but getting a ticket to the Obama inauguration from a scalper could be a federal crime. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As more seats go to season-ticket holders, big-business and special-interest groups, Somebody Real Important has become the ticket broker (or, watch your mouth, "scalper"), the one who frees up the precious booty and gets it into circulation pronto. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A blade or "scalper" removes a strip of surface soil to clear away weed growth. ❋ Unknown (1990)

There is no reason to fear someone called a "scalper" at a Laker game. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Something I might have done, too, back at the ticket line, when the mama-scalper had offered us the discounted ticket.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

A few more children were in tow of the bikinied scalper, who explained that her friend hadn't shown up and now she was stuck with an extra ticket. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The psst-hey-buddy guy may not be the image the new "ticket broker" industry wishes to be associated with—and, goodness knows, one needs to make sure the curbside tickets are legit—but maybe these days dealing with the low-tech scalper is one's best hope of not getting scalped. ❋ Eric Felten (2011)

Still, that hasn't stopped some from dropping $500 and up on a scalper ticket, while others get them through parents in the industry. ❋ The Daily Truffle (2011)

It would have been funnier if the scalper had sold her tickets to Spring Awakening — again, long-shuttered, but when Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff were in the leads, it was quite the hot ticket. ❋ Unknown (2011)

How effective is the Burgess proposal - almost all elements of it result in subjective determination: abusive language; so the ticket scalper who asks me three times in a loud voice for my extra; does that fall under the abusive part of the ordinance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As we approached the ticket line, we were met by an unusual scalper: a woman, in a bikini, carrying a toddler on her hip. ❋ Unknown (2009)

NEW YORK — New York City police say a scalper arrested for selling fake World Series tickets outside Yankee Stadium tried to win his freedom by bribing an officer with seats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Think of a ticket scalper trying to sell tickets the day of the Super Bowl in Miami while standing outside of Yankee stadium. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have all heard the age old ticket scalper method: "Buy this pencil from me for a hundred bucks and I will throw in the concert tickets for free." ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is an attendant dark humor to the fact that the owner of the Redskins has legitimized the professional “scalper.” ❋ Dave Zirin (2010)