Meanings
plural fiveheads
- humorousA large forehead.
For starters, thin me tanned easily and didn't have a forehead so wide it was called a fivehead.
2009 October 13, Stephanie Klein, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OL, page 1962 more examples
His splashiest trick is balancing a glass of grape juice on his forehead (which is so big, he says, that everyone calls it a fivehead) while playing the ukulele, whistling and doing a backward somersault.
1997 October 31, Anita Gates, “Theater Review: Magic That's Made Comic, and Comedy That's Magic”, in The New York TimesIt also helps that my hair has left for higher ground and instead of a forehead, as the joke goes, I have a fivehead.
2008, Gregory Hartley, I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending with Their Body, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 63
Origin
Blend of five + forehead. Wordplay based on adding one to the "fore" (homophonous to four) of forehead, thus implying a brow that is larger than average.
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