Definitions for deadhead

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Spelling: [ded-hed]

IPA: /ˈdɛdˌhɛd/

Deadhead is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in deadhead (aadddeeh).

Definitions for deadhead

noun

1. a person who attends a performance, sports event, etc., or travels on a train, airplane, etc., without having paid for a ticket, especially a person using a complimentary ticket or free pass.
2. a train, railroad car, airplane, truck, or other commercial vehicle while operating empty, as when returning to a terminal.
3. a stupid or boring person; dullard.
4. Metallurgy. excess metal in the riser of a mold.
5. a sunken or partially sunken log.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport (someone) as a deadhead.
2. to move (an empty commercial vehicle) along a route.
3. Horticulture. to remove faded blooms from (ornamental plants), especially in flower gardens, often to help continued blooming.

verb (used without object)

1. to act or serve as a deadhead.
2. (of a commercial vehicle) to travel without cargo or paying passengers:

Origin of deadhead

First recorded in 1570-80; dead + head

Examples for deadhead

The farmer's features did not conceal his disgust when he discovered that his seat-mate was a deadhead.

Each one who could recite or do anything did it, and it was appreciated by a deadhead audience, something unusual nowadays.

“The world perceives cannabis consumers as deadhead, unemployed people—our mission is to change that,” says Defalco.

Her family had trained her to deadhead her way through life and she did it.

He travels from Ohio to the gulf, but not in a palace car nor on a deadhead ticket.

What we should do, we knew, was to deadhead our horses back into the Park as soon as they had had a little rest.

It was said that a deadhead could not borrow a sheet of writing paper in the capitol, nor in a county court-house.

You'll be a deadhead yourself if you ain't careful, young feller!