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Scalp vs Scalper - What's the difference?

scalp | scalper |

As nouns the difference between scalp and scalper

is that scalp is the top of the head; the skull while scalper is one who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.

As a verb scalp

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

scalp

English

(wikipedia scalp)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The top of the head; the skull.
  • The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
  • * 2014 , Kaitlin Newman in Baltimore Sun'', '' Five years after beating, Ryan Diviney’s family holds out hope
  • *:The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.
  • * c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
  • 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.
    • Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
  • A victory.
  • * 1993 , John Frohnmayer, Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior (page 331)
    • Pat Buchanan, in his ongoing presidential quest, claimed his first scalp , and Donald Wildmon's newsletter chortled that his efforts in opposing the NEA had paid off.
  • (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
  • (figurative) The top; the summit.
    • (Macaulay)

    Derived terms

    * scalpless * scalpy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
  • (slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
  • To screen or sieve ore before further processing
    • scalped ore
  • (surgery) To remove the skin of.
  • * J. S. Wells
    • We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
  • (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
    • (Knight)

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    scalper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
  • * 2013 , M. Elise Marubbio, ?Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
    • Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers
  • (US) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices
    • We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
  • (finance) A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her 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).

    • Synonyms

    * (one who scalps tickets ): ticket tout (UK)

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