I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A slight breeze rose to cool his scalp , which had been sun-baked, then doused with water until it tingled.
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Barrow was on his hands and knees on the floor, blood oozing from a wound in his scalp .
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He took scalp treatments that he felt were doing some good although he doubted it.
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His hair fled his scalp as if in flames.
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I sat him up so I could take a look at his scalp under the light.
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Now he stood near the door with his hands clasping each other behind his back and his scalp itching furiously in the heat.
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They had an impression of very red cheeks and moist yellow hair smeared over the scalp like egg yolk.
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Thomas Cunningham suffered a cut to the scalp which required hospital treatment.
II. verb
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Any one of the Commerce Department tickets could have been scalped outside Sun Devil stadium for $ 1, 000 or more.
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But when they are scalping, they are working in the public interest.
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It was rutted deep by ore wagons, scalped of its timber.
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One man's head was scalped.
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That they will never kill or scalp white men, nor attempt to do them harm.
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The full flesh of his cheeks and chin had been scalped back to the bone.
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The victim has been scalped and the priest wears the hair.