scalps
Meaning of scalps
noun
- The top of the head; the 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.
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.
- The top; the 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.
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.
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.
Information about scalps
- The singular form of scalps is: scalp.
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Hyphenation of scalps
scalps
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- scalps is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
scalps synonyms
Meaning :
skull, scaup, summit, resell, sieve
Anagrams of scalps
Words that rhyme with scalps
Alps, alps, calps, palps, pedipalps, salps
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