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Scalped
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
📖 Definitions of "Scalped"
verb
- 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"
adjective
- 1
(in combination) Having some specific type of scalp
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