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- noun Plural form of
scalp . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
scalp .
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Examples
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The minute I'm killed the scalps is yourn, and the scalpin 'knife, too.
Chapter 13 2010
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The minute I'm killed the scalps is yourn, and the scalpin 'knife, too.
Chapter 13 1915
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Perhaps a bonus program for federal regulators to bring in scalps?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Now that the Government has Proved as Incompetent 2010
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George Bush may say that it is the “evil-doers” doingmost ofthe killing now, but that is disingenuous, for we know full well how James Steel and his crew, with tens of thousands of Latin American scalps hanging from their belts, were brought in to initiate the El Salvadoran solution, in a word, death squads as fundamental policy.
The Frat Boys and Their Holocaust - Is it One Million Now? 2007
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An all-night ceremonial is held, and at sunrise the custodian removes the scalps from the pole and attaches them to a pole some six feet high, planting it in the northwestern corner of the plaza.
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On the fifth day the scalp custodian removes the scalps from the pole and they are carried by the scalp washers to a secluded spot on the river bank and washed.
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Opportunities like this ETF, or the similar retail-oriented real estate ETF I mentioned a few months back aren't short-term scalps, rather ideas to hold over an entire cycle, establishing a patience to wear it until valuations improve.
SmartMoney.com 2009
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Department of Defense is that the White House wants to collect six to eight "scalps" -- major program kills -- in this year's Quadrennial Defense Review.
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Formerly these were made from plates of iron called scalps, about two feet long and three inches wide, which were heated to a white-heat and then rolled up over an iron rod, and the edges being lapped were welded together, so as to form a tube of the requisite dimensions, -- the solid rod serving to preserve the cavity within of the proper form.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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Then he took the two white men's scalps from the pack, also the two rifles, and they were also satisfied that the scalps were the scalps of the two white men who had been herding this same band of horses and mules, for the hair was similar in color to that of the two herders.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899
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