Scarper vs Scalper - What's the difference?
scarper | scalper |
(British, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.
* 1904 , John Coleman, Fifty years of an actors? life , Volume 1,
* 2001 , Ardal O'Hanlon, Knick Knack Paddy Whack ,
* 2007 , , [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2132043,00.html]
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 a verb scarper
is (british|slang) to run away; to flee; to escape.As a noun scalper is
one who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.scarper
English
Verb
(en verb)page 54,
- Out went the lights, as he continued, "That sneak Whiskers have just blown the gaff to old Slow-Coach, and he'll be here in two two's to give you beans — so scarper', laddies — ' scarper ! "
page 7,
- The tramps scarpered', the street-traders pushing prams '''scarpered''', half of Dublin ' scarpered as if they all had something to hide.
- Helm writes: 'As if she were some street criminal, ready to scarper , Ruth's home was swooped upon by [Assistant Commissioner John] Yates's men and she was forced to dress in the presence of a female police officer.
Anagrams
* *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?”
