Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & n. from
scalp . - (Surg.) an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory.
- a knife used by North American Indians in scalping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
scalp . - noun The action by which someone is
scalped . - noun A fraudulent form of
market manipulation in which a person buysshares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving theprice up
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Examples
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Mark Chipman gets tense at the mere mention of the word "scalping".
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PAUL WALDIE 2011
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Mark Chipman gets tense at the mere mention of the word "scalping".
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PAUL WALDIE 2011
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The real problem, beyond the eternal nuisance of scalping, is that TicketsNow began offering overpriced tickets almost immediately after they went on sale through Ticketmaster, and while Ticketmaster apparently lacked the technology to handle what should have been a predictable surge in customers, that was not a problem for TicketsNow resellers:
Congressman Wants Ticketmaster Investigated For 'TicketsNow' Website - The Consumerist 2009
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Missouri's ban on ticket scalping is about to be repealed, with legislators saying they just want to help individual consumers resell unused sports tickets.
May 18th, 2007 2007
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I didn't even know what the word scalping meant until I read this blog post.
About that "scalping"... and other blogospheric collective activities. Ann Althouse 2007
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However, short-term scalping is one of the most difficult forms of trading to master as rapid gains are usually met with equally rapid losses.
Currency Trading News by DailyFX Gregory McLeod 2010
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However, short-term scalping is one of the most difficult forms of trading to master as rapid gains are usually met with equally rapid losses.
Currency Trading News by DailyFX Gregory McLeod 2010
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Favor scalping from the short side on rallies, but the bulls seccessful defense of the 1.63 barrier may take the market back up a little more, so it is best to give the market some room.
FXstreet.com 2009
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They call it "scalping" -- they pick a target and harass that person and his or her employer until the person either jumps or is pushed out of the public eye.
Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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After this post of mine questioning Lindsay Beyerstein's assertion that there is a right-wing term "scalping" -- meaning "pick a target and harass that person and his or her employer until the person either jumps or is pushed out of the public eye" -- and that it is exclusively the practice of the right wing, Andrew Sullivan says:
Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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