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1. scalpernoun

   Synonyms:
   ticket tout

2. scalpernoun

   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?

   Synonyms:
   ticket tout

3. scalpernoun

   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).

   Synonyms:
   ticket tout

Princeton's WordNet

1. scalpernoun

   someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost

   "he got theater tickets through a scalper"

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1. Premier League:

   If Akhil Vyas are looking to buy tickets for matches in the Premier League Akhil Vyas should buy them directly from Premier League Clubs, a ‘ ticket tout ’( also known as a ‘ scalper ’) sells match tickets without authorisation, often at vastly inflated prices.