as in idiot
a stupid person
people knew that he was a deadhead and voted for him anyway
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Feed them a few times a growing season and deadhead spent blooms to keep the flowers coming until the first frost.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
As Deadheads and pretty much everyone in the world of the Dead agrees, 1995 wasn’t a banner year for the band.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2025
The dog days of summer will bring Deadheads some musical relief, with the ability to watch Dead & Company's weekend of concerts Aug. 1-3 from San Francisco.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 23 July 2025
Not every music artist can do shows so individualized that fans will be talking about the merits of a specific night years or decades later, the way that Deadheads or some jam-band aficionados do.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 July 2025
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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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.—
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
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“Deadhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadhead. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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