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Definition of Airheads
1. airhead [n] - See also: airhead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airheads
Literary usage of Airheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Handbook of Industrial Oil Engineering: A Reference Book of Data by John Rome Battle (1920)
"The airheads, which are intended to take up the shock, at each end on the bed
travel, ... Usually neatsfoot oil is recommended for the airheads, in order to ..."
2. Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story by Martin Wolfe (1989)
"But we in the 81st, instead of getting ourselves prepared to fly in troopers to
new Allied airheads in back of the German lines, were told that twelve of ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"She isn't one of those airheads you usually see on the tube —King Harris, quoted
in People. 15 Nov. 1982 The word tends to be pejorative when applied to ..."
4. The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical by Lionel Thomas Berguer (1823)
"The former marched out from the rest, and placed themselves in the front; at
which the others shook 'airheads at them, but did not think fit to dispute lce ..."
5. An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1803)
"And indeed it could not well be otherwise ; for, when these people h;id once got
it into th airheads that sanctity uf manners was the only genuine mark of ..."
6. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1852)
"... intersecting the coal strata every fifteen yards with vertical passages,
through which the gas was constantly drained off into the airheads. ..."
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