| 释义 |
dead-head, v.
[see the n.]
1. colloq. (chiefly U.S.).
a. trans. To admit as a ‘deadhead’ (sense 3), without payment.
b. intr. To act the ‘deadhead’, obtain a privilege without payment.
1854Lowell in Atlantic Monthly Dec. (1892) 746/2, I will not be deadheaded. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. ii. (1891) 13 He had been ‘dead-headed’ into the world some fifty years ago, and had sat with his hands in his pockets staring at the show ever since. 1885J. Bigelow in Harper's Mag. Mar. 542/1 Mr. Jefferson was not in the habit of deadheading at hotels.
2. intr. Of logs: to jam. U.S. colloq.
1922H. Titus Timber viii. 79 Your hardwood will begin dead-heading in a hurry. Ibid. x. 89 If the raft goes to pieces and that one log dead-heads.
3. intr. To drive an empty train, truck, taxi, etc.; to travel in an empty vehicle. Also trans. colloq. (chiefly U.S.).
1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 15 Apr. 3/3 Only O'Leary and the conductor..were in the car, which was deadheaded. 1929Folk-Say I. 111 He [sc. a taxi-driver] has to deadhead all the way back. 1956Wallis & Blair Thunder Above (1959) xi. 107 Kyle had flown up to Berlin..as a check pilot and now had forty-eight hours before dead⁓heading back. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed xii. 81 He hated to deadhead back an empty boat. 1970People (Austral.) 26 Aug. 27/5 Another fireman was deadheading in the cab with us and he took over for me.
4. trans. To remove a dead flower or flowers from (a plant). Cf. deadheading vbl. n. 2.
1952C. E. L. Phillips Small Garden xi. 106 A great many herbaceous plants will go on and on if dead-headed. 1956E. H. M. & P. A. Cox Mod. Rhododendrons 17 In a large collection,..it is impossible to dead head every plant. 1966A. E. Lindop I start Counting vii. 96 The daffs were going off, and I dead-headed them and tied them down. 1970C. Lloyd Well-Tempered Garden i. 48 One can distinguish broadly between those plants that are dead⁓headed with no further object than to tidy them up and those from which we are hoping to encourage another flowering. |