scalps
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Definitions ofscalps
- The top of the head; the skull.
Synonyms: skull
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- 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.
Example: "Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle."
- The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
- A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
- A bed or stratum of shellfish.
Synonyms: scaup
- The top; the summit.
Synonyms: summit
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
Synonyms: resell
Example: "Tickets were being scalped for $300."
- 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).
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
Synonyms: sieve
Example: "scalped ore"
- To remove the skin of.
- To remove the grass from.
- To destroy the political influence of.
- (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
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