The Crossword Solver found answer to “Like some pricey produce”, 5 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : SCALP
scalp – v
sell illegally, as on the black market
SYNONYMS
(noun) tout, black marketer (or black marketeer), bootlegger, fence, fencer, hustler, smuggler, trafficker
IN A SENTENCE
scalp theater tickets
Now people that did get verified are scalping tickets on @StubHub for Paul McCartney level prices.
ETYMOLOGY
The meaning “person who re-sells tickets at unauthorized prices for a profit” is by 1869 in American English; the earliest reference is to theater tickets, but it more often was used late 19c. of brokers who sold unused portions of railway tickets.
Perhaps from scalp (v.) in some sense; scalper was a generic term for “con man, cheater” in late 19c. Or perhaps the connecting sense is the bounty offered for scalps of certain destructive animals (attested in New England from 1703) and the notion is “one who holds only part of something, but still gets a reward.” Some, though, see a connection rather to scalpel, the surgical instrument.
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