0 past simple and past participle of scalp
1 to buy things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual prices and then sell them, when they are difficult to get, at much higher prices
2 to cut off the scalp of a dead enemy
Within the twinkling of an eye she was scalped.
She was scalped as a result of her hair being caught in the pulleys of a hop-picking machine.
We cannot possibly do that unless you—and, indeed, everybody else—consent to be scalped.
Half of them were scalped by striking their heads on the seats in front of them.
When they returned several days later, they found the soldiers had been ritually scalped or their bodies thrown into the ravine.
Two of the men were scalped and the heads of the others were cut off.
A man approaches on the tracks via a handcar to reveal he has a scalped head.
Bat had jumped right down on top of him and scalped him and got out of the cave before anybody knew what he was doing.
