ticket tout
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Scholes told The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast that he had to "ring a ticket tout" to get extra tickets after his four season tickets were already in use.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025
When a judge dismissed an appeal by prolific ticket tout Peter Hunter and his husband and accomplice David Smith against their landmark conviction for fraud, he sounded an alarm.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2025
"Greed and dishonesty" motivated a ticket tout firm which "exploited" music lovers out of more than £6.5m, a court has been told.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2024
For instance, one ticket tout in the mid-00s, faced with a Captcha at Ticketmaster, discovered that the entire system was pre-generated: the ticketing site had only loaded about 30,000 captchas in to its database.
From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2017
Then I brandished my umbrella, and punching him with that weapon in the back in an energetic manner, repeated, "Cocher, oblige me with your ticket, tout de suite."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
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