scalp lock

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   a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head

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Questions about scalp lock

What does scalp lock mean?

scalp lock means "a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head".

Is scalp lock a common word?

scalp lock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.