Etymology

Parrothead

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The story

From parrot + -head, coined at a 1985 concert at the Timberwolf Amphitheater in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Buffett observed that many attendees wore Hawaiian-themed parrot hats.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.