scalp
/skælp/
Misollar
- The spa offers a scalp treatment.
- The spa offers a scalp massage.
- Layla felt her scalp was blistering.
- Edmundo found Rima’s scalp on the ground.
- Layla burned Salima on the scalp with a flatiron.
- She scratched her itch through the scalp to the brain.
fe’l verb
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To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
Tickets were being scalped for $300.
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To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
scalped ore
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- 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).
ot noun
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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.
- The top of the head; the skull.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.