Usually means: Skin covering the head's top.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word scalp:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scalp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scalp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scalp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scalp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scalp, scalp: Wordnik
  7. scalp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scalp: Wiktionary
  9. scalp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scalp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scalp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scalp: Dictionary.com
  13. scalp (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scalp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scalp (disambiguation), Scalp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scalp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scalp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scalp: Rhymezone
  19. scalp, scalp (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scalp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SCALP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. scalp: Free Dictionary
  23. scalp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scalp: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. scalp: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. scalp: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Scalp: bizterms.net
  6. Scalp: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. Scalp: Harvey Financial
  8. Scalp: Financial dictionary
  9. Scalp: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scalp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Scalp: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Scalp: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. scalp: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCALP: Acronym Finder
  2. scalp: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalp, scalp, scalp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scalp: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See scalped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
noun:  The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
noun:  (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
noun:  (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
noun:  (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
noun:  (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
noun:  (figurative) The top; the summit.
verb:  To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
verb:  (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
verb:  (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
verb:  (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's 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).
verb:  To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
verb:  (surgery) To remove the skin of.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the grass from.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
verb:  (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.

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