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- noun slang A
fan of therock band The Grateful Dead.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There, he started a discussion on "Do you feel that being a Deadhead is a problem in the corporate world?"
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I would hardly call myself a "Deadhead" but I have truly come to admire and enjoy the Grateful Dead's music in my older years.
The WELL: Sugaree Robert Hunter 2008
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Henley was actually singing "I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac," but this was some years before I knew what a "Deadhead" was.
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Surviving members of the Grateful Dead have decided to give the group's archives to a university library in Santa Cruz, Calif., which some Silicon Valley executives hope to help turn into a mecca for scholars and the band's "Deadhead" fans.
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From this custom, it is stated, that we derive our word "Deadhead," as denoting one who has a free entrance to places of amusement.
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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He also appeared in several feature films throughout the 1960s, most notably as "Deadhead" and assorted variations of that doltish character in American International Pictures '"Beach Party" movies starring
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There is a vague, deeply lying gentle knock on the door from Sid Barrett, powerful memories of King Crimson, and some more Van der Graaf, meshed with enough conjuring of musical visions to satisfy a 'Deadhead' convention.
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Federal Judge Overturns Convictions in Berkeley's 1985 'Deadhead'
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2009
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You've alerted another old, retired Deadhead and New Riders fan living here in Mexico.
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You've alerted another old, retired Deadhead and New Riders fan living here in Mexico.
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