Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To take the head from; remove the head of; deprive of the head or of a head.

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

  • transitive verb To take out the head of.
  • transitive verb obsolete To decapitate; to behead.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To remove the lid from (a barrel or cask).

Etymologies

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un- +‎ head

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Examples

  • They forced CBS News to do ANOTHER EVENING NEWS BROADCAST ABOUT THIS ISSUE, to the tune of almost 6 minutes long - 6 minutes long for a nightly news broadcast? unhead of!

    09/10/2004 2004

  • Staring straight unhead, unmoved, even though the ground shook beneath her knees as she knelt, Crysania's gray eyes glowed with an eerie, inner light.

    Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

  • Staring straight unhead, unmoved, even though the ground shook beneath her knees as she knelt, Crysania's gray eyes glowed with an eerie, inner light.

    Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

  • Didn't even need patching - virtually unhead of for a LucasArts game!

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • Remember 486's with slow video cards and high resoloution monitors was almost unhead of for the PC world.

    O'Reilly News 2009

  • Such gains are not unhead of, particularly to national media marketing related businesses, if investors can stick it out for 2-5 years.

    National Media Company - Entertainment Promotion Outsourcing 2008

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  • be-a-little-a-head behind? Has anyone heard of this?

    January 6, 2012