Crossword-Solution: SCALP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scalp | n. | A bed of oysters or mussels. |
| Scalp | n. | That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair. |
| Scalp | n. | 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. |
| Scalp | n. | Fig.: The top; the summit. |
| Scalp | v. t. | To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of. |
| Scalp | v. t. | To remove the skin of. |
| Scalp | v. t. | To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. |
| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCALP | anagram | CLAPS, CLASP |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SCALP (5)
Each hair was about the bigness of a large angleworm, and as the thing moved the muscles of its scalp this awful head-covering seemed to writhe and wriggle and crawl about the fearsome face as though indeed each separate hair was endowed with independent life.
Terkoz had a dozen knife wounds on head and breast, and Tarzan was torn and bleeding—his scalp in one place half torn from his head so that a great piece hung down over one eye, obstructing his vision.
Across Tarzan’s forehead stood out the broad band of scarlet that marked the scar where, years before, Terkoz had torn a great strip of the ape-man’s scalp from his skull in the fierce battle in which Tarzan had sustained his fitness to the kingship of the apes of Kerchak.
Again his spine tingled and the short hairs lifted at the nape of his neck and along the top of his scalp.
She dug her nails into her scalp, and clutching the heavy coils of her thick black hair tore it again and again.
Quotes with SCALP (3)
I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.
See what love does? It makes you weak. Kills you." Warm breath feathered over her scalp as Remy pressed a gentle kiss to the top of her head. "It also gives people something to live for," he whispered.
I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 352 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).