buckethead

plural bucketheads

1. Alternative form of bucket head.
   1. A stupid or oblivious person.

      So he held his fingers up, V for victory. Something those bucketheads ought to understand.

      1997, James W. Hall, Buzz Cut, →ISBN, page 373

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      We were real bucketheads and we've got to make up for a lot of lost time. Even if we didn't know enough about the Communist conspiracy in those days to get out from behind the front organizations, then we certainly should have brains enough now to make amends by taking an active part in the present-day endeavors dedicated to exposing and destroying the Fifth Column in our professions.

      1955, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 80, page 109

      Maybe she could just step up her letter-writing campaign to the newspapers. She wondered if she wasn't fighting a losing battle anyway, trying to educate bucketheads.

      1999, Julie Anne Peters, Love Me, Love My Broccoli, →ISBN, page 60

   2. One who eats or drinks by the bucketful.

      Most of the guests were out on the front lawn, guzzling away, real bucketheads.

      1992, Lee Grove, Drowning, →ISBN, page 175

   3. One who wears a bucket or bucket-like object on his or her head.

      The needs of our lumbering bucketheads dictated we go in close.

      2007, Michael Z. Williamson, The Weapon, →ISBN, page 257

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      Between this weather and the bucketheads, it's tough for a guy to find a spot of shade."

      1992, James Luceno, Mata Hari Affair, →ISBN, page 44

      “I wish you were a buckethead,” the troll said. "Then we could carry some water."

      2011, Christopher M. Dulabone, Melody Grandy, Greg Hunter, Bucketheads in Oz, →ISBN, page 126