Scalp \Scalp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scalped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scalping}.] 1. To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
2. (Surg.) To remove the skin of.
We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. --J. S. Wells.
3. (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. --Knight.
Scalping \Scalp"ing\ (sk[a^]lp"[i^]ng), a. & n. from {Scalp}.
{Scalping iron} (Surg.), an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory.
{Scalping knife}, a knife used by North American Indians in scalping.
Even in New York, where a new scam comes along about as often as a puff of pollution from New Jersey, this is one for the books: They're scalping lox.
Sharpton was also allegedly under investigation for scalping rock concert tickets earmarked for ghetto youth, but has denied any wrongdoing.
Carlos Batalla Cordero believes in ticket scalping _ believes in it so strongly that he's founded a union and gone on a hunger strike to promote honest, legal scalping.
Carlos Batalla Cordero believes in ticket scalping _ believes in it so strongly that he's founded a union and gone on a hunger strike to promote honest, legal scalping.
Ticket scalping is illegal in Massachusetts.
Police said they charged eight people with ticket scalping outside the stadium.