scalp
noun
the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
had scalped
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past perfectof scalp.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Taken at his fullest inventory he had "scalped" a living out of the world for which he had done but little to make happier or better.
From Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks
The reporters had scalped him, metaphorically speaking, and his brain was seething.
From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy
It was this "Satan Montgomery" whom Macaulay had scalped with merciless criticism in the Edinburgh Review.
From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
