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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dead•head (ded′hed′),USA pronunciation [Informal.]n. - a person who attends a performance, sports event, etc., or travels on a train, airplane, etc., without having paid for a ticket, esp. a person using a complimentary ticket or free pass.
- Rail Transporta train, railroad car, airplane, truck, or other commercial vehicle while operating empty, as when returning to a terminal.
- a stupid or boring person;
dullard. - Metallurgyexcess metal in the riser of a mold.
- a sunken or partially sunken log.
v.t. - to transport (someone) as a deadhead.
- Rail Transport, Transportto move (an empty commercial vehicle) along a route.
- Botany[Hort.]to remove faded blooms from (ornamental plants), esp. in flower gardens, often to help continued blooming.
v.i. - to act or serve as a deadhead.
- Rail Transport, Transport(of a commercial vehicle) to travel without cargo or paying passengers:The train carried coal to Pittsburgh and then deadheaded back to Virginia to pick up another load.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: deadhead /ˈdɛdˌhɛd/ n - a dull unenterprising person
- a person who uses a free ticket, as for a train, the theatre, etc
- US Canadian a train, etc, travelling empty
- US Canadian a totally or partially submerged log floating in a lake, etc
vb - (transitive) to cut off withered flowers from (a plant)
- (intransitive) US Canadian to drive an empty bus, train, etc
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