(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull. / The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident. / (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.

Obsolete spelling of scalp

plural of scalping

plural of scalpe

present participle of scalp

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scalp

plural of scalp

The action by which someone is scalped. / (finance) A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up.

simple past tense and past participle of scalp