airhead
1[air-hed]
noun
an area in enemy territory or in threatened friendly territory, seized by airborne troops for bringing in supplies and additional troops by airdrop or landing.
RELATED WORDS
clod, dummy, numskull, dunce, fool, idiot, blockhead, dope, imbecile, chump, nitwit, simpleton, boob, dumbbell, dimwit, dolt, lunkhead, dork, goon, stupid
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1airhead
2[air-hed]
noun
Origin of airhead
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Examples from the Web for airhead
Sure, the critics never quite cottoned to him; they always insinuated that he was an airhead, a blank.
But Bonds was no airhead who could only read from a TelePrompTer.
Vanda ends up being much less of a airhead than she initially appears.
In the book, Brewer hints ever so carefully that the judge, Susan Bolton, is something of an airhead.
airhead
1noun
Word Origin for airhead
C20: modelled on beachhead
noun
Word Origin for airhead
C20: from air + head
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airhead
"empty-headed person," 1972, from air (n.1) + head (n.). Earlier as a term in mining (mid-19c.) and as a military term based on beachhead (1950).
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