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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Examples (10)

  • 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.