scalping
The word “scalping” has 2 syllables: scalp-ing
It's pronounced as /ˈskælpɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for scalping?
In the thesaurus, “scalping” has 58 synonyms and 17 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for scalping along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for scalping
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- beheading
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- decapitating
- decollating
- defeasance
- destruction
- discomfiture
- downthrow
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- guillotining
- heading
- insuccess
- killing
- ko
- lacing
- licking
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- paddling
- pruning
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- setback
- shellacking
- shortening
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- vanquishment
- waxing
- whaling
- whipping
- whitewashing
Antonyms for scalping
- accomplishment
- achievement
- attainment
- boon
- building
- construction
- creation
- forfeit
- good fortune
- loss
- mastery
- rise
- success
- surrender
- victory
- win
- yielding
Meanings of scalping
- verb
- 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.
- 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.
- To remove the skin of.
- To remove the grass from.
- To destroy the political influence of.
- (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- noun
- 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.
Example Sentences
- The authorities are cracking down on scalping and reselling tickets at inflated prices.
- He was arrested for scalping concert tickets outside the venue.
- Scalping has become a major issue for fans trying to buy tickets at fair prices.
- The law is now stricter when it comes to scalping goods online.
- Many online platforms are working to prevent scalping by using advanced bot protection.
On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to scalping, such as: accomplishment, achievement, ambush, annihilation, attainment, beating, beheading.
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- soiling
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- trap
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- KO
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- cuffing
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- downthrow
- drifting
- drubbing
- embarrassment
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- failure
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- hammering
- harm
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- hiding
- hitting
- horsewhipping
- hurt
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- knocking
- lacerating
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- lamming
- lashing
- lathering
- laying on
- leathering
- licking
- loss
- maiming
- mangling
- massacre
- mastery
- mauling
- mayhem
- mutilating
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- nonsuccess
- oaring
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- outbreak
- outrage
- overthrow
- paroxysm
- pasting
- pelting
- pistol-whipping
- poling
- pommeling
- pommelling
- pounding
- pulling
- pummeling
- pummelling
- punching
- punching out
- punting
- rage
- raiding
- rampage
- rawhiding
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- revolt
- riot
- rout
- rowing
- ruin
- rupture
- rushing
- sailing
- savagery
- scalping
- scourging
- sculling
- setback
- shellacking
- shock
- slamming
- slapping
- slating
- slaughter
- slogging
- smacking
- smashing
- socking
- spanking
- storm
- storming
- strapping
- strong-arming
- subjugation
- swatting
- swiping
- switching
- tanning
- terror
- thrashing
- threat
- threshing
- thumping
- thwacking
- trap
- trashing
- trawling
- trimming
- triumph
- tromping
- trouncing
- tumult
- turbulence
- upheaval
- uproar
- vanquishment
- violence
- walloping
- waxing
- whacking
- whaling
- whamming
- whapping
- whipping
- whitewashing
- whomping
- whopping
- whupping
- working over
- wounding
- yachting
decapitating
- beheading
- decollating
- guillotining
- heading
- pruning
- scalping
- shortening
- trimming
decollating
- beheading
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- guillotining
- heading
- pruning
- scalping
- shortening
- trimming