(常见义)倒票/黄牛转卖:把门票、限量商品等转手加价出售以获利的行为。
(也可指)在金融市场中做“短线剥头皮”(极短时间内小额获利的交易);更早的历史语境里也可指“割头皮”(较少用于日常学习语境)。
/ˈskælpɪŋ/
Tickets were so scarce that scalping became common outside the stadium.
门票太紧俏了,体育场外倒票变得很常见。
The city introduced stricter rules to curb online scalping, where bots buy up seats in seconds and resell them at several times the original price.
该市出台更严格的规定来遏制线上倒票:机器人几秒内抢光座位,再以原价数倍转卖。
来自动词 scalp(原义与“头皮”相关),后在英语中引申出“迅速攫取、从中牟利”的含义;在现代用法里,常指通过转卖门票/稀缺商品或进行超短线交易来赚取差价的行为。