as in idiot
a stupid person
people knew that he was a deadhead and voted for him anyway
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Dead & Company finished up Weekend 1 of its second annual Sphere residency in stellar fashion, delivering its third straight three-hour plus show of Grateful Dead classics before a packed house of some 17,000 gyrating and mesmerized Deadheads at the hi-tech domed venue in Las Vegas on Saturday.
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Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
Grab your garden shears, and let's deadhead dahlias.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Keep up the flower power all summer long with these tips on how and when to deadhead dahlias properly.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 June 2025
Plenty of Phish-heads may be annoying, but so are plenty of Deadheads, metalheads, hip-hop heads, yacht-rock ironists, Springsteen fanatics.
—Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
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Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
Grab your garden shears, and let's deadhead dahlias.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Keep up the flower power all summer long with these tips on how and when to deadhead dahlias properly.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 June 2025
Plenty of Phish-heads may be annoying, but so are plenty of Deadheads, metalheads, hip-hop heads, yacht-rock ironists, Springsteen fanatics.
—Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deadhead
stupid
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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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“Deadhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadhead. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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