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DEADHEAD
Definition of DEADHEAD
noun
A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend.
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Where it comes from
From dead + head. Some senses are derived from theater jargon (originally spelled dead head) for audience members admitted without paying, which probably arose in analogy to dead weight or deadwood in reference to their lack of contribution to revenue or in reference to their unenthusiastic (dead) response to performances. Perhaps even from Latin caput mortuum, alchemy term for distillation residue. As Paul Quinion writes: Similarly, the term was applied to a dull or lazy person, one who contributes nothing to an enterprise, only in the early years of the twentieth century, well after the theatrical and transport senses had become well established.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.5%
of traced words share this origin (8,667)
branch · 32.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEADHEAD · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEADHEAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 134, 1 October 2026.
Built from these letters
DEADHEAD starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADDDEEH - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D, E and A appear more than once.
Words that start DEADHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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