Scalper vs Scalier - What's the difference?
scalper | scalier |
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).
(scaly)
Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
(dated, vulgar, or, South African) Mean; low.
Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
(South Africa) The scaly yellowfish, .
As a noun scalper
is one who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.As an adjective scalier is
(scaly).scalper
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?”
Synonyms
* (one who scalps tickets ): ticket tout (UK)Anagrams
* * * * * ----scalier
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*scaly
English
Adjective
(er)- a scaly fellow