Scalp

Noun

 * 1)  The top of the head; the skull.
 * Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
 * 1)  The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from
 * 2) A victory.
 * It turns out old Tweets can come back to haunt you! Or at least derail your political aspirations. Yes, social media has claimed its first scalp with Twitter drawing first blood on the election trail.
 * 1)  A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.

Derived terms

 * scalpy

Verb

 * 1) To remove the part of the head from where the hair grows, by brutal act or accident.
 * 2)  To sell for a greatly inflated price to those in desperation, as in scalping tickets to a ball game.

Adjectives for Scalp
bare; fearful; transformed; clean; sickly; dry; itching; diseased; scaly.

Verbs for Scalp
adorn—; affect—; apply to—; cover—-; crust —; cut—; distend—; heal—; imbed in—; irritate—; lacerate—; massage—; move—; pierce—; rip—; strip—; tear—; wound—; —erodes; —reddens; —tenses; —tingles.

Thesaurus
bark, be caught short, be short, belong, bucket, bucketshop, decorticate, deposit margin, excoriate, flay, go long, hold on, make a killing, make a scoop, margin up, miss the market, operate, overstay the market, pare, peel, play the market, plunge, pyramid, scoop the market, skin, speculate, stag, stag the market, strip, take a flier, trade on margin, venture

Etymology
Originally a northern word, and therefore presumed to come from a Scandinavian source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Old Norse skálpr:, Middle Dutch schelpe:.

Noun

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 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: فروة الرأس
 * Catalan: cuir cabellut
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Skalp, Kopfhaut
 * Hebrew: קרקפת
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: скальп, кожа головы
 * Serbian: vlasište, vlasnik
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Volapük: skalp
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 * Volapük: skalp
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 * Finnish:


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Verb

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: viedä päänahka
 * Hungarian:, megskalpol
 * Italian: fare lo scalpo, scotennare


 * Portuguese: escalpelar
 * Romanian: scalpa
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * calps
 * claps
 * clasp