Scalpel vs Scalper - What's the difference?
scalpel | scalper |
A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.
One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
* 2013 , M. Elise Marubbio, ?Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
(US) 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
(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).
As nouns the difference between scalpel and scalper
is that scalpel is a small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork while scalper is one who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.scalpel
English
(wikipedia scalpel)Noun
(en noun)See also
* bistoury * knifescalper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers
- We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”