Meaning of Scalp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The top of the head; the skull.
   dialectal
2. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
3. 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.
   historical
4. The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
5. A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
   figuratively
6. A bed or stratum of shellfish.
   Scotland
7. The top; the summit.
   figuratively

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Examples

“By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.”

“The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[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.”

“Admiral Lee, aboard USS Washington, can content himself with the fact that his ship has claimed the scalp, or helped claim the scalp, of three out of the four Kongō class, and has landed meaningful hits on Nagato and Yamato as well, making it the single most successful U.S. battleship in history.”

“Randy Waldrum’s Nigeria, ranked 40th in the world, 36 places below England, looked as if they would claim the latest big scalp and knock out the European champions after the eliminations of Brazil, Canada, Germany and the USA.”

“the snowy scalp of Ben Cruachan”

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