ticket tout
Frequency: 7.09.5 per million words
A person who buys tickets for an event to resell them at a much higher price.
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- The police are cracking down on ticket touts operating outside the concert hall.
- I had to buy my ticket from a ticket tout at an inflated price.
- New legislation aims to make it harder for a ticket tout to resell tickets for profit.
- Be careful, as that ticket tout might be selling counterfeit tickets.
- Despite the warnings, many fans still resorted to buying from ticket touts.
- The website was shut down for facilitating the activities of online ticket touts.
- He works as a ticket tout, buying cheap and selling high for popular events.
- There was a notorious ticket tout who controlled the resale market for all major games.
- The event organizers warned that any tickets purchased from a ticket tout would be invalid.
- She felt cheated after paying a ticket tout three times the original price for her seat.