deadhead
ded hed
- n a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way
the deadheads on the payroll should be eased out as fast as possible - n a train or bus or taxi traveling empty
- It gets into their ordinary TV sets through an adapter, which puts STV programs onto Channel 6 a deadhead channel in Los Angeles.
- They take the longest jumps and often "deadhead"that is, fly empty to pick up passengers.
- It is the old "I am" flung at the deadhead world, but no longer as an assertion.