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

1. noun. A bed of oysters or mussels.
2. noun. That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. Fig.: The top; the summit.
5. transitive verb. To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
6. transitive verb. To remove the skin of.
7. transitive verb. To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
8. intransitive 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.
9. noun. the skin that covers the top of the head

   "they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy"

10. verb. remove the scalp of

    "The enemies were scalped"

11. verb. sell illegally, as on the black market

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scalp:

claps, clasp

Common word forms

scalps, scalped, scalper, scalping, scalpless

Words from these letters

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