scalp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
gambling
games
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
monarchy
nobility
politics
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).
Inflected forms:
form: scalps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scalps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scalping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scalped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scalped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The top of the head; the skull.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
pos: noun
examples: By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.
gloss: The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
The most disturbing thing about Disneyland is seeing all those smiling people walking around wearing Mickey Mouse's severed scalp.
gloss: The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
pos: noun
examples: He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chevron invected gules, between two bugle-horns sable, stringed of the second in chief, and the attires of a stag affixed to the scalp in base of the third, two fasces chevronways or.
gloss: A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: [At the American State Convention in 1856 the Hon E. M. Yerger of Yazoo said that] he came up to the great council fire of his people, not like his friends Cobb, Hillyer and Brooke, with no scalps at his girdle that he had had a fight and a glorious victory.
His mind is quick to perceive a weak place in the enemy's armor, as he glances over the exchanges, and when he "goes for" a solitary foe he always returns with the scalp hanging at his girdle.
Pat Buchanan, in his ongoing presidential quest, claimed his first scalp, and Donald Wildmon's newsletter chortled that his efforts in opposing the NEA had paid off.
Admiral Lee, aboard USS Washington, can content himself with the fact that his ship has claimed the scalp, or helped claim the scalp, of three out of the four Kongō class, and has landed meaningful hits on Nagato and Yamato as well, making it the single most successful U.S. battleship in history.
Randy Waldrum’s Nigeria, ranked 40th in the world, 36 places below England, looked as if they would claim the latest big scalp and knock out the European champions after the eliminations of Brazil, Canada, Germany and the USA.
gloss: A bed or stratum of shellfish.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: The top; the summit.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the snowy scalp of Ben Cruachan
gloss: To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
pos: verb
examples: Next morning, the Indians attacked us and one of our hunters, George Huffman, was killed and scalped. As soon as Baldwin heard the shooting, he came to our assistance.
gloss: To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
slang
examples: Tickets were being scalped for $300.
Tickets sold online through Craigslist, eBay, and other forums, where the purchaser cannot physically see them, run a greater risk of being counterfeit—but counterfeiters have been known to scalp tickets in person outside the venue as well, […]
Scalped tickets were going for $3,000 and up.
gloss: To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
pos: verb
examples: The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
gloss: To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
pos: verb
examples: scalped ore
gloss: To remove the skin of.
pos: verb
examples: We must […]"scalp" the whole lid [of the eye].
gloss: To remove the grass from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To destroy the political influence of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
pos: verb
Derived words: bulldog scalp
hemiscalp
scalpal
scalp-ear-nipple syndrome
scalped
scalphunter
scalphunting
scalpless
scalp lock
scalp ringworm
scalpy
scalpee
scalper
scalping
scalping knife
scalping tuft
unscalped
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kopvel
lang: Arabic
word: فَرْوَة اَلرَّأْس
roman: farwat ar-raʔs
lang: Bulgarian
word: скалп
roman: skalp
lang: Catalan
word: cuir cabellut
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏍᏗᏁᎦᎸᎢ
roman: usdinegalvi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 頭皮 /头皮
roman: tóupí
lang: Danish
word: hovedskalp
lang: Dutch
word: kruin
lang: Esperanto
word: skalpo
lang: Finnish
word: hiusmarto
lang: French
word: cuir chevelu
lang: Galician
word: coiro cabeludo
lang: German
word: Kopfhaut
lang: Hebrew
word: קרקפת
roman: karkéfet
lang: Hungarian
word: skalp
lang: Irish
word: craiceann an chinn
lang: Italian
word: scalpo
lang: Italian
word: cotenna
lang: Italian
word: cuoio capelluto
lang: Japanese
word: 頭皮
roman: tōhi
lang: Khmer
word: ស្បែកក្បាល
roman: sbaekkbaal
lang: Latin
word: calva
lang: Latvian
word: skalps
lang: Macedonian
word: скалп
roman: skalp
lang: Malayalam
word: തലയോട്ടി
roman: talayōṭṭi
lang: Malayalam
word: ഓട്ടി
roman: ōṭṭi
lang: Māori
word: kiri angaanga
lang: Māori
word: kawiu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hodebunn
lang: Polish
word: góra głowy
lang: Portuguese
word: couro cabeludo
lang: Russian
word: скальп
roman: skalʹp
lang: Russian
word: ко́жа головы́
roman: kóža golový
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vlasište
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vlasnik
lang: Southern Altai
word: баштыҥ терези
roman: baštïŋ terezi
lang: Spanish
word: cuero cabelludo
lang: Spanish
word: pericráneo
lang: Swedish
word: huvudsvål
lang: Swedish
word: skalp
lang: Thai
word: หนังศีรษะ
lang: Thai
word: หนังหัว
lang: Turkish
word: kafa derisi
lang: Turkish
word: saç derisi
lang: Turkmen
word: kelläň depesi
lang: Vietnamese
word: da đầu
lang: Volapük
word: skalp