heads

[hedz]

adjective

1. (of a coin) with the top, or obverse, facing up.

   On the first toss, the coin came up heads.

heads

/ hɛdz /

interjection

1. 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

2. informal,  people in authority

Word History and Origins

Origin of heads¹

First recorded in 1675–85; head + -s ¹

Example Sentences

They shake their heads at a photograph of a headstone someone put up in a front yard across the Lewis River.

From Los Angeles Times

Unlike most celebrity portraits, “In Whose Name?” has no glossy packaging, no talking heads and, most unusually, no input from its subject.

From Los Angeles Times

The key question now is which candidates clear this first hurdle, and how many of them are not in government and so more free to criticise it as the race heads to its next stage?

From BBC

Mehmet Oz, who heads Medicare and Medicaid, asserted on Fox News in July that “Today the average able-bodied person on Medicaid who doesn’t work, they watch 6.1 hours of television or just hang out.”

From Los Angeles Times

Before long, though, he and the other DOGErs buried their heads in their laptops and plugged in their headphones.

From Salon

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