Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun disparaging an airheaded person.

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  • noun pejorative A silly, foolish or unintelligent person.
  • noun A landing area for aircraft for supplying an operation, military or other, usually temporary.
  • noun military An area of hostile territory that has been seized by paratroopers or helicopter-based troops to ensure the further landing of troops and/or materiel.

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  • noun a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
  • noun a flighty scatterbrained simpleton

Etymologies

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air +‎ head; having one's head filled with air instead of grey matter.

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air +‎ head, by analogy with beachhead, bridgehead, railhead.

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Examples

  • CNN's daily fascination with this airhead is bordering on the creepy. tee

    Palin: 'My heart goes out to Huckabee' 2009

  • All these "airhead" comments reflect your lack of maturity!

    Palin calls news org 'heartless and selfish' 2009

  • Please, someone explain to this woman that she cannot see Russia from her house, and that statement make her come across as an "airhead".!

    Palin set to let the tweets 'fly' 2009

  • It's hard to imagine now, but 31 years ago, when I first announced that I was supporting Reagan in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, I was routinely asked by friends on the right how I could possibly associate myself with this "airhead," this B movie star, who was not only stupid but incompetent.

    In Defense of Sarah Palin Norman Podhoretz 2010

  • It's hard to imagine now, but 31 years ago, when I first announced that I was supporting Reagan in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, I was routinely asked by friends on the right how I could possibly associate myself with this "airhead," this B movie star, who was not only stupid but incompetent.

    In Defense of Sarah Palin Norman Podhoretz 2010

  • It's hard to imagine now, but 31 years ago, when I first announced that I was supporting Reagan in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, I was routinely asked by friends on the right how I could possibly associate myself with this "airhead," this B movie star, who was not only stupid but incompetent.

    In Defense of Sarah Palin Norman Podhoretz 2010

  • For the "airhead" caricature to stick, there has to be some element of truth to it.

    The Tire-Gauge Dust-Up And The Politics Of Mockery 2009

  • Somehow with Obama, "airhead" just doesn't pass muster.

    The Tire-Gauge Dust-Up And The Politics Of Mockery 2009

  • For the "airhead" caricature to stick, there has to be some element of truth to it.

    The Tire-Gauge Dust-Up And The Politics Of Mockery 2009

  • Somehow with Obama, "airhead" just doesn't pass muster.

    The Tire-Gauge Dust-Up And The Politics Of Mockery 2009

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  • An area in enemy territory or in threatened friendly territory, seized by airborne troops for bringing in supplies and additional troops by airdrop or landing. ;)

    January 19, 2007