scalp

Definition of scalp in English English dictionary: The top of the head; the skull; A victory; A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup; To sell for a greatly inflated price to those in desperation, as in scalping tickets to a ball game; To remove the part of the head from where the hair grows, by brutal act or accident; The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from; To trade for small gains It normally involves establishing and liquidating a position quickly, usually within the same day; {v} to cut the skin off the skull; {n} the skull, the skin and flesh on the skull; {i} skin and tissue covering the part of the head that is usually covered by hair; The top; the summit; That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair; Fig; To scalp someone means to remove the skin and hair from the top of their head. He pretended to scalp me with his sword; the skin that covers the top of the head; "they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy"; remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped"; Your scalp is the skin under the hair on your head. He smoothed his hair back over his scalp; the skin that covers the top of the head; "they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy" remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped" sell illegally, as on the black market; Suit Contamination Avoidance Liquid Protection; To trade on the market for small gains Scalping normally involves buying and selling a position quickly, usually within the same day, hour or even a few minutes; To remove the skin of; 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; To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling; A very short-term trade of a few minutes This does not apply to Waxie scalps; A bed of oysters or mussels; sell illegally, as on the black market; to trade the "edge", the difference between the bid and the ask; {f} cut off the scalp of an enemy; buy and sell stocks quickly in order to earn quick profits; sell tickets at an inflated price (Slang); To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account; A scalp is the piece of skin and hair that is removed when someone is scalped; To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of; To trade for small gains Scalping normally involves establishing and liquidating a position quickly, usually within the same day; If someone scalps tickets, they sell them outside a sports ground or theatre, usually for more than their original value. He was trying to pick up some cash scalping tickets; To trade for small gains Scalping normally involves establishing and liquidating a position quickly, usually within the same day, hour or even just a few minutes
scalp paresthesias: Scalp Tingling, numbness or tingling sensation
scalp lock: a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head
scalp lock: A long lock of hair left on the top of the shaven head by certain Native American men
scalped: Having some specific type of scalp
scalped: Simple past tense and past participle of scalp
scalper: 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?”.
scalper: 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)
scalping: Present participle of scalp
scalping: The action by which someone is scalped
scalping: A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up
scalper: {n} a surgeons scraping knife
scalping: Scalping is the act of removing the scalp, usually with the hair, as a portable proof or trophy of prowess in war. The practice has been known in Europe, Asia and Africa. Scalping is also associated with frontier warfare in North America, and was practiced by Native Americans and white colonists and frontiersmen over centuries of violent conflict
scalped: {s} having had one's scalp cut off
scalped: past of scalp
scalper: A MARKET-MAKER who makes excessive markups or markdowns in the shares he is dealing into reduce his risk to the minimum
scalper: A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market
scalper: A speculator on the trading floor of an exchange who buys and sells rapidly, with small profits or losses, holding his positions for only a short time during a trading session Typically, a scalper will stand ready to buy at a fraction below the last transaction price and to sell at a fraction above, thus creating market liquidity
scalper: One who, or that which, scalps
scalper: A trader who trades for small, short-term profits during the course of a trading session, rarely carrying a position overnight
scalper: someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; "he got theater tickets through a scalper
scalper: Same as Scalping iron, under Scalping
scalper: A speculator using live data on a fully electronic trading exchange or a trader on the trading floor of an exchange who buys and sells rapidly to take advantage of small price fluctuations, holding positions for only a short time during a trading session Typically, a scalper will stand ready to buy at a fraction below the last transaction price and to sell at a fraction above, thus creating market liquidity Scalpers buy and sell often; therefore, they make it possible for others to enter or exit the market quickly The term scalper arises from the fact that these traders attempt to “scalp” a small amount on a trade
scalper: A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets
scalper: One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (perhaps on the day and just outside the venue of the event) at inflated prices
scalper: A floor trader who trades for small, short-term profits during the course of a trading session, rarely carrying a position overnight
scalper: {i} one who cuts off the scalp of an enemy; one who buys and sells stocks quickly in order to earn quick profits; one who sells tickets at an inflated price (Slang)
scalper: Security deposit Segregated account Selective hedging Sell stop order Selling hedge Settlement Settlement price Short Short covering Short hedge Short-the-basis Sideways Special account Speculation Speculator Spot Spread Spreading Stock Index Futures Stop orders Stopped out Storage Straddle Strangle spread Strike price Strong basis Summary suspension Supply Support Surplus fund Synthetic position Systematic risk
scalper: one who "scalps", who works on the exchange floor and trades the "edge"
scalper: A scalper is someone who sells tickets outside a sports ground or theatre, usually for more than their original value. Another scalper said he'd charge $1000 for a $125 ticket. someone who makes money by buying tickets for an event and selling them again at a very high price British Equivalent: tout
scalper: someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; "he got theater tickets through a scalper"
scalping: The practice of trading in and out of the market on very small price fluctuations A person who engages in this practice is known as a scalper
scalping: Buying up the good IPOs
scalping: This is a method of removing dead grass from Bermuda and Zoysia lawns It is accomplished by mowing the grasses using a very low setting on the mower blades
scalping: Removing defective areas from an ingot before hot-working
scalping: Removing a patch or strip of sod in preparation for planting trees
scalping: {i} act of cutting off the scalp of an enemy; act of buying and selling stocks quickly in order to earn quick profits; act of selling tickets at an inflated price (Slang)
scalping: Removal of all or part of the scalp, with hair attached, from an enemy's head. It is best known as a practice of North American Indian warfare. At first confined to eastern tribes, it spread as a result of bounties offered by the French, English, Dutch, and Spanish for the scalps of enemy Indians and sometimes of enemy whites. Many American frontiersmen and soldiers adopted the custom. Among Plains Indians, scalps were taken for war honours, usually from dead enemies, although some warriors preferred a live victim. The operation was not necessarily fatal, and some victims were released alive
scalping: Site preparation method which exposes favourable mineral soil for tree seedlings to be planted in
scalping: For floor traders, the practice of trading in and out of contracts throughout the trading day in hopes of making a series of small profits
scalping: site preparation method which exposes favorable mineral soil for tree seedlings to be planted in
scalping: Removal of sod or other vegetation in spots or strips
scalping: A strategy of buying at the bid and selling at the offer as soon as possible
scalping: from Scalp
scalping: The tendency for a sorbent to selectively sorb one contaminant over another Relates to selective desorption
scalping: Removing small plants and doff or ashes from around the spot where a tree seedling will be planted Usually done by hand rather than by machine (17)
scalps: third-person singular of scalp
scalps: plural of , scalp

scalp

Turkish pronunciation

skälp

Pronunciation

/ˈskalp/ /ˈskælp/

Etymology

[ 'skalp ] (noun.) 14th century. Originally a northern word, and therefore presumed to come from a Scandinavian source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Middle Dutch schelpe (“shell”).

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scalps, scalping, scalped

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