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To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.

To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.

Example: Tickets were being scalped for $300.

On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).

To screen or sieve ore before further processing.

Example: scalped ore

The action by which someone is scalped.

A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up.

A legitimate method of arbitrage of small price gaps created by the bid-ask spread.