meathead n.
1. (US) a stupid person; thus as a term of address.
![]() | (con. 1917–18) War Bugs 140: We bawled them out for a lot of meat-heads. | |
![]() | I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 101: You must take me for a meathead, Semmler. | ‘The Death of Me’ in|
![]() | (con. 1944) Dirty Dozen (2002) 359: I’ve always been glad it was me and not some meathead you talked to. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s) Tattoo (1977) 173: Hey, that’s what I’ve been trying to tell a bunch of Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma meatheads since I’ve been in. | |
![]() | Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 113: She excused herself at one point to cold dismiss some meathead acting all loud. | ‘Adeva’ in|
![]() | Llama Parlour 199: They’re in a kind of limbo-land. Not the macho meatheads they were brought up to be, or the Male Feminists they claim to be on telly chat shows. | |
![]() | Outlaws (ms.) 142: Al Stanton of the purple SLK. Meathead. Fucking bully. | |
![]() | Mad mag. July 45: Lawsuits that pour in from bimbos and meatheads. | |
![]() | Rubdown [ebook] Meatheads [...] Couldn’t handle that we were smarter than they were. | |
![]() | Viva La Madness 331: What was I thinking of? Getting that meathead Santos over here. | |
![]() | ‘Nothing You Can Do’ in ThugLit Mar. [ebook] The meatheads in the front box who gave him the shiner. | |
![]() | Heat [ebook] ‘It’s not unusual for serving and disgraced police officers to share certain interests with the meatheads who join bikie gangs’. | |
![]() | Twitter 3 Aug. 🌐 So unprofessional to refer to people in the legal profession using such a ridiculous cliché [i.e. ‘lefty lawyers’] that only appeals to the thickest, rightwing meatheads. |
2. a general term of abuse.
![]() | Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 144: Look, meathead [...] no use us being sore at each other. | |
![]() | Battle Cry (1964) 117: O.K., you meatheads, take off your packs. | |
![]() | USA Today 23 Dec. 04D: While Buffy hasn’t yet had a word achieve the breakout status of Seinfeld’s ‘yada, yada,’ or All in the Family’s ‘meathead,’ it is a rich source. | |
![]() | (con. 1954) Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] ‘My hand is pretty sore.’ ‘You mighta broke it on that meathead’s face’. |
In derivatives
stupid, foolish.
![]() | St Paul Globe (MN) 20 Oct. 9/5: You big-eared, meat-headed chump. | |
![]() | Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 166: Whose would you take [...] some meat-headed tart’s? Or mine. | |
![]() | Killer’s Wedge (1981) 26: Not even meatheaded Captain Frick. | |
![]() | The Joy (2015) [ebook] One of those meat-headed gym freaks, who spends hours lifting weights because he thinks it makes him more of a man. | |
![]() | Kimberly’s Capital Punishment (2023) 242: [Y]our typical meatheaded neckless bouncer. |