: an area in hostile territory secured usually by airborne troops for further use in bringing in troops and matériel by air
Examples of airhead in a Sentence
Noun (2)
I felt like an airhead when I couldn't remember my new neighbor's name in trying to introduce him
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
The seven Beach Party films feature airheads enjoying sandy weekend fun, no teachers or parents in sight—though an anthropologist on the sidelines scrutinizes youthful mating habits through a telescope.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
Tom Hulce is daffy and delicious as the airhead prodigy Mozart, but few of us can identify with that kind of genius.
—EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Paired alongside Williams and Dunst’s airheads, Ferrell plays a nincompoop Bob Woodward, but the role doesn’t give him much of a chance to cut loose.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain and Fred Astaire in Top Hat were essentially airheads.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Unlike the original Hilary Banks, who is portrayed as an airhead, the current character (played by Coco Jones) is an intelligent and ambitious social media influencer with entrepreneurial pursuits.
—Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 17 July 2024
On Watch What Happens Live Tuesday, Tisdale was asked about going out for the role of Karen Smith, the lovable airhead eventually played by Amanda Seyfried.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
See, most trolls are like Poppy, psychotically happy, boundlessly optimistic airheads who spend their every waking hour hugging, singing, laughing, and tripping the light fantastic under a really big groovy disco ball.
—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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Noun
Her Ashley is the movie’s fourth and fifth wheel, dismissed as both a perfidious troublemaker and a New Age airhead—a life coach in need of a wife coach.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
The seven Beach Party films feature airheads enjoying sandy weekend fun, no teachers or parents in sight—though an anthropologist on the sidelines scrutinizes youthful mating habits through a telescope.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
Tom Hulce is daffy and delicious as the airhead prodigy Mozart, but few of us can identify with that kind of genius.
—EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Paired alongside Williams and Dunst’s airheads, Ferrell plays a nincompoop Bob Woodward, but the role doesn’t give him much of a chance to cut loose.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain and Fred Astaire in Top Hat were essentially airheads.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Unlike the original Hilary Banks, who is portrayed as an airhead, the current character (played by Coco Jones) is an intelligent and ambitious social media influencer with entrepreneurial pursuits.
—Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 17 July 2024
On Watch What Happens Live Tuesday, Tisdale was asked about going out for the role of Karen Smith, the lovable airhead eventually played by Amanda Seyfried.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
See, most trolls are like Poppy, psychotically happy, boundlessly optimistic airheads who spend their every waking hour hugging, singing, laughing, and tripping the light fantastic under a really big groovy disco ball.
—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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“Airhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airhead. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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