English Dictionary

scalp

IPA（発音記号）

/skælp/

動詞

カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 俗語 他動詞

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.

日本語の意味

（暴力や事故によって）頭皮を剥ぎ取る、または頭皮一部を除去する。 / （カナダ、米国のスラング）特に高騰した価格で、切符などを不正に再販売する（転売する）。

During the brutal frontier raid, the attackers proceeded to scalp the captured settlers.

残忍な辺境の襲撃で、襲撃者たちは捕らえた入植者たちの頭皮を剥いだ。

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.

scalps （ present singular third-person ）

scalping （ participle present ）

scalped （ participle past ）

scalped （ past ）