Deadhead (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a person who attends a performance, sports event, etc., or travels on a train, airplane, etc., without having paid for a ticket, especially a person using a complimentary ticket or free pass.
  2. a train, railroad car, airplane, truck, or other commercial vehicle while operating empty, as when returning to a terminal.
  3. a stupid or boring person; dullard.
  4. excess metal in the riser of a mold.
  5. a sunken or partially sunken log.
verb (used with object)
  1. to transport (someone) as a deadhead.
  2. to move (an empty commercial vehicle) along a route.
  3. to remove faded blooms from (ornamental plants), especially in flower gardens, often to help continued blooming.
verb (used without object)
  1. to act or serve as a deadhead.
  2. (of a commercial vehicle) to travel without cargo or paying passengers: The train carried coal to Pittsburgh and then deadheaded back to Virginia to pick up another load.
noun
  1. a dull unenterprising person
  2. a person who uses a free ticket, as for a train, the theatre, etc
  3. a train, etc, travelling empty
  4. a totally or partially submerged log floating in a lake, etc
verb
  1. to cut off withered flowers from (a plant)
  2. to drive an empty bus, train, etc
Deadhead (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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