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Scauper vs Scalper - What's the difference?

scauper | scalper |

As nouns the difference between scauper and scalper

is that scauper is a tool with a semicircular edge, used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving while scalper is one who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.

scauper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool with a semicircular edge, used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.
    • (Fairholt)
    (Webster 1913)

    scalper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
  • * 2013 , M. Elise Marubbio, ?Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
    • Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers
  • (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
    • We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
  • (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).

    • Synonyms

    * (one who scalps tickets ): ticket tout (UK)

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