heads
Americanadjective
interjection
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with the obverse side of a coin uppermost, esp if it has a head on it: used as a call before tossing a coin Compare tails
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informal people in authority
Etymology
Origin of heads
Example Sentences
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Inside a glass office, James Orr, a Cambridge theologian who heads the party’s policy team, explains that Reform aims to redefine politics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
And also when he gets up in the morning and heads to work at the Rams’ practice facility.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
It meant no flights to Belfast to knock heads together, not that many of those Conservative prime ministers - May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak - spent a lot of time doing that anyway.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
In a World Cup where the boffins with their big brainy heads and their super computers are working overtime on who might play who in the last 32, there are other calculations worth conjuring with.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026
At one end of it, a crew of men with shaved heads and striped overalls were digging a ditch.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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