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ticket scalper

noun

  1. an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.


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Origin of ticket scalper1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Senate Republicans’ campaign arm recruited wealthy Montana businessman Tim Sheehy to run against Sen. Jon Tester this cycle and has been trying to persuade Rosendale—a Freedom Caucus irritant who, despite representing Montana, sounds like a ticket scalper outside a Baltimore Ravens game—not to throw his hat in the ring.

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While the 1988 original is Akeem’s fish-out-of-water tale, as the pampered prince travels to Queens in search of a worthy bride, the second installment flips the script by immersing Fowler’s Lavelle — a ticket scalper, college dropout and lifelong Queens kid — in the outlandish opulence of Zamunda.

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Lavelle, a college dropout and part-time ticket scalper with some of his father’s good-hearted charm, looks like the solution to the kingdom’s problems.

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So he brings Lavelle, a ticket scalper who aspires to much more, back to Zamunda, along with Mom.

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Rowling should worry because people are beginning to become sick of spending more than $1000 for a ticket to see a show, bought from a ticket scalper.

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