The practice of buying tickets to events and quickly reselling them at much higher prices, or historically, removing the scalp from a defeated enemy.
From 'scalp' (the skin on top of your head). The ticket-reselling meaning emerged in the 1800s; the violent meaning is older and may relate to Germanic or Native American practices documented in colonial records.
Scalping tickets became a huge problem because of the internet—now bots can buy thousands of tickets in seconds before humans even see them, creating a whole underground economy!
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