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scalp
  1. (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
  2. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
  3. A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by Native American warriors as a token of victory.
  4. A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
  5. (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
  6. (figuratively) The top; the summit.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “There was a prickling at the base of my scalp, and I was drenched with cold sweat.”
scalper
  1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
  2. (US) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices
  3. (finance) A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her 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).
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Despite laws prohibiting it, the scalper managed to sell the concert tickets at excessively high prices.”
      “Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.”
      “As we walked and walked in search of the lone open ticket window, a scalper cornered us.”
scalping
scalpe
  1. Obsolete spelling of scalp
scalpings
scalpers
  1. plural of scalper
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They grab tickets en masse for scalpers, lurk in chat rooms to hand out ads, skew recommendation systems, and scrape pricing data.”
      “Although I would prefer to go by ship, I will not buy a ticket from scalpers.”
      “If more ticket windows were opened at railway stations to provide more tickets, there would be less queue-jumping and fewer scalpers.”
scalpes
  1. plural of scalpe
scalps
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