Dictionary Entry
scalp
scalp is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bed of oysters or mussels. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bed of oysters or mussels.
- 2noun
That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
- 3noun
A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.
- 4noun
Fig.: The top; the summit.
- 5transitive verb
To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
- 6transitive verb
To remove the skin of.
- 7transitive verb
To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
- 8intransitive verb
To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
- 9noun
the skin that covers the top of the head
"they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy"
- 10verb
remove the scalp of
"The enemies were scalped"
- 11verb
sell illegally, as on the black market
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