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"Deadhead" Definition

noun

A partially submerged log or trunk.
A person regarded as dull-witted or sluggish.
A person who uses a free ticket for admittance, accommodation, or entertainment.
A vehicle, such as an aircraft, that transports no passengers or freight during a trip.
One who has not paid for a ticket.

adverb

Without passengers or freight; empty.

verb

To make especially a return trip without a load.
To deadhead a plant.
To remove the faded flowers of (a plant) especially to keep a neat appearance and to promote reblooming by preventing seed production.

verb-intransitive

To bypass a senior employee in order to promote a more junior employee.
To make a trip without passengers or freight: "The instruments were out, and it meant they had to deadhead back on another airplane” ( Walter J. Boyne).

verb-transitive

To pilot or drive (a vehicle) carrying no passengers or freight.
To pull (dead or dying blossoms) off a flower.

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