Deadheads
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pluralof Deadhead.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
deadheadnouna 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.
Example Sentences
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These live recordings had an appeal beyond Deadheads: The group’s May 8, 1977, concert at Cornell University was placed into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
Deadheads took to the road in the 1970s to pursue the Grateful Dead from city to city.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
Deadheads, ballerinas and Mick Jagger: As 2023 winds down, revisit a memorable handful of the thousands of images commissioned by our photo editors that capture the year in culture.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
By the time you went to your third concert -- typical among Deadheads -- you would start recognizing and interacting with this same collection of familiar strangers and this could facilitate positive interactions.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2023
He returned his gaze to the Deadheads, a glowing disk still floating in his vision.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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