as in idiot
a stupid person
we despair of ever getting those hammerheads to buckle their seat belts without prodding
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Recent Examples of hammerhead
This tiger shark sighting comes after hammerhead sharks were spotted off the Bay State coast.
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Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 23 July 2025
And, brother, are there a lot of varieties — hammerhead shark, walking shark, whale shark, tawny nurse shark, pajama shark, pelagic thresher, tiger shark, tasselled wobbegong shark, puffadder shy shark, baby shark, mommy shark and daddy shark, to name but a few.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
In 2018, a visitor fishing in the surf at North Carolina’s Outer Banks pulled out a 6-foot hammerhead shark that outweighed him.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2025
When the full beams are switched on, the hammerhead elements separate horizontally to reveal the headlights.
—Doug Newcomb, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
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Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 23 July 2025
And, brother, are there a lot of varieties — hammerhead shark, walking shark, whale shark, tawny nurse shark, pajama shark, pelagic thresher, tiger shark, tasselled wobbegong shark, puffadder shy shark, baby shark, mommy shark and daddy shark, to name but a few.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
In 2018, a visitor fishing in the surf at North Carolina’s Outer Banks pulled out a 6-foot hammerhead shark that outweighed him.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2025
When the full beams are switched on, the hammerhead elements separate horizontally to reveal the headlights.
—Doug Newcomb, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hammerhead
Noun
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Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
Drew Broussard
May 22,
Literary Hub,
22 May 2025
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
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Magic starred Hopkins as Corky, a magician who reaches fame alongside his ventriloquist’s dummy, the obnoxious and wisecracking Fats.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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The patient is actually a training dummy that instructors can manipulate into yelling, moaning, retching, suffering blood pressure spikes, heart attacks and other medical emergencies.—
Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Hammerhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hammerhead. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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