Crossword clues for scalp
scalp
- Resell at a huge markup
- Make some money off those tickets
- It may itch
- It has roots
- Hawk at an arena
- Dandruff's home
- Brave's trophy
- Where to apply Rogaine
- Where there's hair
- Where shampoo is applied
- What's glimpsed between cornrows
- War trophy of the good old days
- Upper massage target
- Turn over illegally
- Take people for tickets?
- Take advantage of fans, in a way
- Take advantage of a sellout, in a way
- Skull covering
- Skin under your hair
- Skin that's visible in a bald spot
- Skin covering top of the head
- Skin covered by a comb-over
- Skin beneath your hair
- Shaved part of the body, maybe
- Sell your ticket to the Super Bowl
- Sell tickets outside the stadium
- Sell tickets in the parking lot, maybe
- Sell for quick profit
- Sell for an outrageous premium
- Sell at the stadium, perhaps
- Sell at a significant markup
- Sell at a quick profit
- Sell a $20 ticket for $200
- Root site
- Rogaine application site
- Resell unlawfully
- Resell tickets unfairly
- Resell tickets for profit
- Resell tickets for a big profit
- Resell outside a stadium, say
- Resell just outside the stadium, perhaps
- Resell for a profit, as tickets
- Resell for a profit
- Resell exorbitantly, as tickets
- Resell at Fenway, perhaps
- Resell at an inflated price
- Resell at a major markup
- Resell at a big profit
- Resell above face value
- Re-sell a ticket
- Punish barbarically
- Prize for a brave
- Portion of the head
- Place to rub in shampoo
- Place for lots of roots
- Overdo it with tickets
- Lock's spot
- Locale of hair plugs
- It's under locks
- It's sometimes shaved
- It's seen between cornrows
- It's scientifically proven to grow hair
- It may be under a rug
- Indian trophy
- Implant setting
- Illegally resell, like concert tickets
- Illegal ticket sale
- Head massage target
- Head louse's home
- Hair-raising place
- Hair restorer in a way
- Hair hides it
- Deal in scarce tickets
- Dandruff's spot
- Dandruff zone
- Dandruff site
- Dandruff shampoo's target
- Cranium cover
- Cradle cap's location
- Cornrow's location
- Copperskin's trophy
- Clasp (anag)
- Break the law, by one's own admission?
- A comb-over covers it
- Resell, in a way
- Frontier trophy
- Resell at a profit
- Resell at inflated prices
- Sell illegally, as tickets
- Sell tickets illegally
- It's full of roots
- Sioux warrior's trophy
- Resell, as tickets
- Token of victory
- Overcharge, informally
- Part of the body that may be massaged
- Place for a massage
- Hustle tickets outside the stadium
- Resell for profit
- It's overhead
- Where hair roots grow
- Locks holder
- Resell illegally, as tickets
- Massage target, sometimes
- Sell outside the stadium
- Overcharge and then some
- Itch site
- Skull cap?
- Charge 200% for, maybe
- Source of some bangs
- A diehard enemy might want yours
- Massage locale
- Where dandruff accumulates
- It has thousands of roots
- Where roots grow
- Where flakes may build up
- Skullcap?
- Resell, as concert tickets
- Place for plugs
- Where your roots are
- The skin that covers the top of the head
- Resell unfairly, as tickets
- Cheat, in a way
- Tonsure area
- Hair carrier
- Sell hot tickets
- "Rug" area?
- Resell tickets, in a way
- Part of the head that can develop dandruff
- Resell tickets illegally
- Cosmetic transplant area
- Overcharge for tickets
- Tonsorial concern
- Profiteer with tickets
- Area for a tonsorial artist
- Southern European leaving station returning for trophy
- Skin on top of the head
- Skin of the head
- Flake of hard skin almost touching soft skin on head
- Head skin
- Hair location
- It's over your head
- Head covering
- Rooting section?
- Hair holder
- Top of the head
- Barber's concern
- Head part
- Head cover
- Type of massage
- A toupee covers it
- Top of one's head
- It's been proven to grow hair
- Massage type
- Hair-raising place?
- Dome cover
- Dandruff source
- Dandruff origin
- You can do your part here
- Sell illegally, in a way
- Sell illegally, as a ticket
- Sell at an inflated price
- Sell at a big markup
- Resell to desperate fans, maybe
- Resell tickets at jacked-up prices
- Resell for a huge profit
- Resell for a big profit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scalp \Scalp\, v. i. To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account. [Cant]
Scalp \Scalp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scalped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalping.]
To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
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(Surg.) To remove the skin of.
We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
--J. S. Wells. (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
--Knight.
Scalp \Scalp\ (sk[a^]lp), n. [Cf. Scallop.] A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]
Scalp \Scalp\, n. [Perhaps akin to D. schelp shell. Cf. Scallop.]
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That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
--Shak. 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.
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Fig.: The top; the summit.
--Macaulay.Scalp lock, a long tuft of hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American Indians.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "top of the head (including hair)," presumably from a Scandinavian source (though exact cognates are wanting) related to Old Norse skalli "a bald head," skalpr "sheath, scabbard,"from the source of scale (n.1). French scalpe, German, Danish, Swedish skalp are from English. Meaning "head skin and hair as proof of death or a victory trophy" is from c.1600.
"to cut off (someone's) scalp," 1670s, from scalp (n.), originally in reference to North American Indians. For ticket re-selling sense, see scalper. Related: Scalped; scalping. Compare German skalpern, Danish skalpere, Swedish skalpera. French scalper is from Germanic. Similarity to Latin scalpere "to cut, carve" is accidental.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now dialectal English) The top of the head; the skull. 2 The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. 3 A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by Native American warriors as a token of victory. 4 A victory. 5 (context Scotland English) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup. 6 (context figurative English) The top; the summit. vb. 1 To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident. 2 (context slang English) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally. 3 To screen or sieve ore before further processing 4 (context surgery English) To remove the skin of. 5 (context milling English) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
WordNet
n. the skin that covers the top of the head; "they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy"
v. sell illegally, as on the black market
remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped"
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Scalp is the anatomical area bordered by the face anteriorly and the neck to the sides and posteriorly.
SCALP may also refer to:
- Storm Shadow, "SCALP EG" in French, an Anglo-French air-launched cruise missile
- Section carrément anti Le Pen (acronym SCALP), a French anti-fascist organisation
Usage examples of "scalp".
Soon after bunches of white hair appeared on the occiput, and in the succeeding years small patches of decolored hairs were observed also on the anterior and lateral portions of the scalp.
We were ambushed, and the Sergeant got a bad hurt, and would have lost his scalp, but for a sort of inbred turn I took to the weapon.
He waited, raised above the people, his hands bound behind his back, while the executioners readied the other prisoner: a witch, bonnetless and with bloody patches on her scalp.
Seeing it brings back the way he pulled the bandanna off his head to scratch his scalp, revealing the brassy color of his ropy hair.
David Silver was a plump young man with a pink scrubbed complexion, gold-rimmed pince-nez and his hair glossy with brilliantine and parted down the centre so that his scalp gleamed in the division like the scar of a sword cut He deferred courteously to his Uncle Aaron, and went to pains to make certain that both his guests were comfortable, that their chairs were arranged with the light from the windows falling from behind and that each of them had an ashtray beside him and a cup of tea in his hand.
The last expressman bearing a letter addressed to Clinch had ridden out in August, only to fall not far from Fort Brooke: shot, scalped, and disemboweled, he was.
Figure 279 represents a somewhat similar hypertrophic condition of the scalp and face reported in the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, 1870.
As the Indians hacked and scalped their way through the growing pile of bodies, Maria knew that the heavens were closed, that God slept on this February night.
Every vessel and nerve supplying the scalp was destroyed, and the pericranium was torn off in three places, one of the denuded spots measuring five by seven cm.
A device, with hundreds of hair thin needles, pierces the scalp and produces a detailed 3-D map, a grid, which gives us the precise location of the ridges of the hippocampus ventricle and the pineal gland.
Ted Gruhn, the Royal Barber, who although relatively gentle with the other commissioned pollywogs, left his old nemesis with only a Mohawklike tuft on the front and center of his scalp.
Officer and enlisted pollywogs alike had their heads shaved or clipped in bizarre scalp locks and fringes and tufts.
There is recorded a fetal scalp injury, together with clotted blood in the hair, after a fall of the mother: Autenrieth describes a wound of the pregnant uterus, which had no fatal issue, and there is also another similar case on record.
The presence of congenital patches of white or gray hair on the scalp, as recorded in No.
I hope the Sarpent is now satisfied, for here he comes with the scalp at his belt.