deadheader

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who removes the dead remains of blossoms from plants.
    — Instead, she is a weeder, actually for enjoyment ("That's when I get some of my best thinking done"), a keen harvester of flowers for the house, and a merciless deadheader of perennials in the autumn.
  2. A non-paying passenger.
    — There's company rules against riders. I told him tonight he's gonna have a deadheader; all he wanted to know was you gonna have coffee money.
  3. A scheduled trip to move a vehicle that has no cargo and no passengers.
    — From Granite City, I think it was, we rode a deadheader to Minneapolis.
  4. One who does not work very hard at their job.
    — ...were always the "infamous machine" or the "bosses' candidate" or the "payroll deadheaders and racketeers."
  5. A racing pigeon that will not leave when released.
    — Don does this to catch "Deadheaders" - birds which circle the wrong way and won't leave the release site. By his precise records, Don can remove deadheaders by a process of elimination.

词形变化

deadheaders plural

词源

From deadhead + -er.
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