as in idiot
a stupid person
people knew that he was a deadhead and voted for him anyway
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Recent Examples of deadhead
May that dream live on through future generations of Deadheads.
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Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Jan. 2026
Their fans, known as Deadheads, would tour along from city to city and revel in the constantly changing set lists, extended soloing and improvisational jamming that gave each show a unique flavor.
—Adam Levine, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
The band would survive long past the hippie moment of its birth, with its ultra-devoted fans known as Deadheads often following them on the road in a virtually non-stop tour that persisted despite decades of music and culture shifting around them.
—Andrew Dalton, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
This was Dead country, with cover bands constantly playing and Phish, founded by another UVM deadhead out of the college town of Burlington, coming up through the local scene.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
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Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Jan. 2026
Their fans, known as Deadheads, would tour along from city to city and revel in the constantly changing set lists, extended soloing and improvisational jamming that gave each show a unique flavor.
—Adam Levine, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
The band would survive long past the hippie moment of its birth, with its ultra-devoted fans known as Deadheads often following them on the road in a virtually non-stop tour that persisted despite decades of music and culture shifting around them.
—Andrew Dalton, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
This was Dead country, with cover bands constantly playing and Phish, founded by another UVM deadhead out of the college town of Burlington, coming up through the local scene.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deadhead
Noun
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Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.—
Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
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This drunk moron — quite different from his character in the novel — bears a ton of blame.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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My dad has always said the lottery is a tax on the stupid.—
Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2026
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The scale of the headloss was best summed up by Luis Suarez attempting to reason with Messi, before the Argentine did anything on the Suarez scale of stupid.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Deadhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadhead. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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