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Deadhead

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A person who uses a free ticket for admittance, accommodation, or entertainment.

n. A vehicle, such as an aircraft, that transports no passengers or freight during a trip.

n. A person regarded as dull-witted or sluggish.

n. A partially submerged log or trunk.

v. To pilot or drive (a vehicle) carrying no passengers or freight.

v. To pull (dead or dying blossoms) off a flower.

verb-intransitive. To make a trip without passengers or freight: "The instruments were out, and it meant they had to deadhead back on another airplane” ( Walter J. Boyne).

verb-intransitive. To bypass a senior employee in order to promote a more junior employee.

ad. Without passengers or freight; empty.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend

n. An employee of a transportation company, especially a pilot, traveling as a passenger for logistical reasons, for example to return home or travel to their next assignment.

n. Anyone traveling for free.

n. A train or truck moved between cities with no passengers or freight, in order to make it available for service

n. A person staying at a lodging, such as a hotel or boarding house, without paying rent; freeloader.

n. A stupid or boring person; dullard

n. Driftwood.

n. A fan of the rock band the Grateful Dead (usually Deadhead).

n. A zombie.

v. To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.

v. To drive an empty vehicle.

v. To send (a person or message) for free.

v. To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy.

n. One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.

n. A buoy. See under Dead, a.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In founding: The extra length of metal given to a cast gun.

n. The tailstock of a lathe. It contains the dead-spindle and back-center, while the live-head or headstock contains the live-spindle.

n. Nautical, a rough block of wood used as an anchor-buoy.

n. One who is allowed to ride in a public conveyance, to attend a theater or other place of entertainment, or to obtain any privilege having its public price, without payment.

To provide free passage, admission, etc., for; pass or admit without payment, as on a railroad or into a theater: as, to deadhead a passenger, or a guest at a hotel.

To travel on a train, steamboat, etc., or gain admission to a theater or similar place, without payment.

n. In lumbering, a sunken or partly sunken log.

n. a train or bus or taxi traveling empty

n. a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way

Word Usage

"Though I'm not really what you'd call a deadhead, at the end of the week in which it becomes apparent that our prime minister has declared war on culture — literally — the first thing I want to do is throw up some Grateful Dead."

Verb Form

deadheaded deadheading deadheads

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

public transport nonworker

Variant

dead

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

redhead

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