Synonyms
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- cluck
- clunk
- cretin
- cuddy [British dialect]
- cuddie
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- dolt
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- prat [British]
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schlub [slang]
- shlub
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of meathead in a Sentence
Her brother's a real meathead.
he's a meathead, but handy to have around if there's any heavy lifting to be done
Recent Examples on the Web
Until recently, lifting was associated almost exclusively with a specific kind of meathead: crude, tattooed, ragey, offensive.
—
Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Contra-stereotype, Finkel estimates that only ten per cent of meatheads are numbskulls.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
Efron looked, as meatheads would put it, ripped to the bone, with muscles that seemed ready to break free of his sunworshipper’s tan.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
Seann William Scott played the (ultimately) good-hearted meathead lax bro Steve Stifler in four American Pie movies.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 8 Aug. 2023
Both my inner scholar and my inner meathead genuflect.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
These narrow-minded meatheads, however, are only thinking about one very specific type of running workout.
—Emily Abbate, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
There would be a meathead revolution.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 23 July 2022
Yet for all the homicidal temper and tribal backstabbing, there was a ruthlessly funny, jaunty, and entertaining quality to Tony and his motley meathead crew.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Contra-stereotype, Finkel estimates that only ten per cent of meatheads are numbskulls.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
Efron looked, as meatheads would put it, ripped to the bone, with muscles that seemed ready to break free of his sunworshipper’s tan.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
Seann William Scott played the (ultimately) good-hearted meathead lax bro Steve Stifler in four American Pie movies.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 8 Aug. 2023
Both my inner scholar and my inner meathead genuflect.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
These narrow-minded meatheads, however, are only thinking about one very specific type of running workout.
—Emily Abbate, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
There would be a meathead revolution.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 23 July 2022
Yet for all the homicidal temper and tribal backstabbing, there was a ruthlessly funny, jaunty, and entertaining quality to Tony and his motley meathead crew.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
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“Meathead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meathead. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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