📖 Definitions of "Scalp"
- 1
The top of the head; the skull.
- 2
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- 3
A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
"Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle."
- 4
The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
- 1
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- 2
To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
"Tickets were being scalped for $300."
- 3
On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- 4
To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
"scalped ore"
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