deadhead
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- noun
- /ˈdɛdˌhɛd/
- Jargon
:
fan de los Grateful Dead
- But when you see a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac, a little voice inside your head should tell you not to get in.
And we thought, think she'd become a Deadhead.
- And we thought, think she'd become a Deadhead.
Examples
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Well, yeah, but everywhere we go, there's going to be deadheads already there.
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I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
Blog text (18) -
"I mean, I can understand being a total, absolute Deadhead."
Fiction book (1996) -
-I'm a Deadhead, but now that Jerry's dead, I'm just kind of a loser.
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He is exactly how a Deadhead is listed to a tee.
Blog text (9) -
After a Deadhead kicked Riley out of his microbus for a wisecrack about a bootleg tape, the rest stop map made going home seem like a good idea.
Fiction book (1997) -
Joe's friends from work dressed predictably: Nanette, the Deadhead dancer from Georgia, as a hoopskirted southern belle.
Academic text (2001) -
Judy's younger brother, Mark Cohen, is the final link to the story—he was a huge music fan and an even bigger Deadhead, attending over 350 shows.
Blog text (17) -
The Deadhead adage that no two shows are the same certainly applies, especially to the Hanukkah shows: one year, an old man in a tweed jacket climbed onstage for the encores, and it wasn't until he turned from his amp that the crowd realized it was Ray Davies.
Blog text (27) -
At the concert last night, I met a fellow deadhead who shared my love for the band's classic albums.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deadhead was first used for fans of the band Grateful Dead who followed the group from concert to concert. So a deadhead is a devoted fan who often traveled to many shows.