English Dictionary

scalp

/skælp/

verb

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.

She likes to scalp tickets for concerts.

意味（1）

To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.

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.

意味（2）

(Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.

Tickets were being scalped for $300.

意味（3）

(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.

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.

意味（4）

(finance) 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).

意味（5）

To screen or sieve ore before further processing.

scalped ore

意味（6）

(surgery) To remove the skin of.

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意味（7）

(transitive) To remove the grass from.

意味（8）

(transitive) To destroy the political influence of.

意味（9）

(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.