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Is scalp a Scrabble word?

Yes, scalp is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of scalp?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.Synonyms: skulldialectal

2. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.Examples: "Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle."; "The most disturbing thing about Disneyland is seeing all those smiling people walking around wearing Mickey Mouse's severed scalp."historical

3. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.Examples: "He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chevron invected gules, between two bugle-horns sable, stringed of the second in chief, and the attires of a stag affixed to the scalp in base of the third, two fasces chevronways or."

4. (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.Examples: "[At the American State Convention in 1856 the Hon E. M. Yerger of Yazoo said that] he came up to the great council fire of his people, not like his friends Cobb, Hillyer and Brooke, with no scalps at his girdle that he had had a fight and a glorious victory."; "His mind is quick to perceive a weak place in the enemy's armor, as he glances over the exchanges, and when he "goes for" a solitary foe he always returns with the scalp hanging at his girdle."; "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."figuratively

5. (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.Synonyms: scaupScotland

6. (figurative) The top; the summit.Examples: "the snowy scalp of Ben Cruachan"Synonyms: summitfiguratively

verb (English)

1. (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.Examples: "Tickets were being scalped for $300."; "Tickets sold online through Craigslist, eBay, and other forums, where the purchaser cannot physically see them, run a greater risk of being counterfeit—but counterfeiters have been known to scalp tickets in person outside the venue as well, […]"; "Scalped tickets were going for $3,000 and up."Synonyms: resellCanadaUSslang

2. (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.Examples: "The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets."

3. (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).

4. (surgery) To remove the skin of.Examples: "We must […]"scalp" the whole lid [of the eye]."

5. (transitive) To remove the grass from.transitive

6. (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "scalp"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "scalp"?

Scrabble
9 points
S1
C3
A1
L1
P3
Words With Friends
12 points
S1
C4
A1
L2
P4

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