scalpers
Because it is a word with a single syllable, scalpers is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofscalpers
- One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
- 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.
Synonyms: "ticket tout"
Example: "We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”"
- 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.
Synonyms: "scalping-iron"
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