Crossword clues for airhead
airhead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
airhead \air"head`\ ([^a]r" h[e^]d`), n. an airheaded person. [disparaging]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context pejorative English) A silly, foolish or unintelligent person. Etymology 2
n. 1 A landing area for aircraft for supplying an operation, military or other, usually temporary. 2 (context military English) An area of hostile territory that has been seized by paratroopers or helicopter-based troops to ensure the further landing of troops and/or materiel.
WordNet
n. a flighty scatterbrained simpleton; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one"
a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
Wikipedia
An airhead is a designated area in a hostile or threatened territory which, when seized and held, allows the air landing of further teams and materiel via an airbridge, and provides the maneuver and preparation space necessary for projected operations. Normally it is the area seized in the assault phase of an airborne operation. It may also be used as a staging or refueling point for less permanent operations.
Typically, an airhead is established by helicopter-landed or paratrooper forces, and often will take place at an airport (to allow conventional transport to land later on) or at a helicopter or glider-accessible area.
Notable airhead operations include Battle of Crete and Operation Market Garden during World War II, and Operation Just Cause in Panama in 1989. Operation Castor was intended to establish an offensive airhead, but quickly degenerated into the Siege of Dien Bien Phu.
Airhead may refer to:
- Airhead, a military term for the endpoint of an airborne assault.
- Airhead (slang), a common derogatory term for a foolish or ignorant person
It may also refer to:
Airhead (formerly Jefferson Airhead) were an English indie rock band that achieved some success in the early 1990s, at the tail end of the Madchester music movement.
Forced to change their name from Jefferson Airhead due to its (deliberate) similarity to Jefferson Airplane, Maidstone-based band Airhead achieved minor UK Singles Chart success with singles "Funny How" and "Counting Sheep". After releasing one album and a handful of singles, they were dropped by their record label Korova and released their final record, the That's Enough EP on Mother Tongue. They are probably best remembered for "Funny How", which although not their highest-charting single was played heavily on BBC Radio 1 at the time of its release.
In 1996, Airhead made a brief return to the live scene, when they supported Kula Shaker, at the Tunbridge Wells Forum.
In June 2007, the fan site Airhead Online began a petition to convince the major record label Warners, owner of Airhead's label Korova, to reissue Boing!! in expanded format with bonus tracks and liner notes from the band.
Airhead is a young-adult novel by Meg Cabot. It was released on May 13, 2008. The sequel, Being Nikki was released in May 2009 . The third book in the series Runaway has been released as well.
The book is about a teenage girl whose life is forever changed by the tragic accident that leaves her taking the identity of a supermodel, Nikki Howard. Thrown into a completely unfamiliar world, she's forced to hide her old identity in order to personify her current one.
In an earlier Meg Cabot book, The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight, the protagonist, Mia, ponders which body she would like if her brain had to be transplanted, apropos the 1986 TV movie Who is Julia? Most likely this was the inspiration for Airhead.
Airhead, also known as ghetto prep, popular, Trixie (in Chicago), basic bitch, or simply basic, is a slang term in American popular culture used to pejoratively describe women (usually white) who are perceived to predominantly like mainstream products, trends, or music while at the same time fearing and disliking diversity. Airhead dates back to the late 1980s as a derogatory term for a stupid or unaware person, while basic bitch originated in hip-hop culture during the early 2010s. It rose in popularity through rap music, songs, blogs, and videos from 2011 to 2014. Interpretations of the term vary and its use has been criticized for being an overly vague and a misogynistic insult.
Their male counterparts are usually termed "basic bros" or "urban preps". Foreign equivalents to the basic bitch or airhead include preconceived notions that some people have about contemporary British Essex Girls, Irish Millies, and Australian haul girls known for their love of shopping for designer gear.
Usage examples of "airhead".
Corporation gossip had her running with a procession of pretty if airheaded starlets, none of whom seemed to last for more than a couple of weeks.
Madeline had been in Intel, and even an airhead screw-up with a serious drinking problem could pick up a lot of potentially dangerous skills there, which is why Laura braved the rain to run a hasty check on the car.
That was all she needed--an airhead receptionist and a giggling file clerk as her support team.
At this, the man hit her hard across the face, striking her nose so that with the sudden stab of pain she stepped away from him at the st airhead found no footing, and hurtled down the narrow stairs, rolling over, the sharp agony of newly fractured ribs all she was aware of until her head struck the polished quarry-tiled floor.
Since Julian considered Posiphar's family a set of ignorant little airheads, she talked mostly to Lori, but never interrupting a conversation Lori was having with Posiphar.
On September 27, 1999, NBC’s host Katie Couric opened the Today show by chipperly announcing, “The Gipper was an airhead.
He was tired from days of long duty, and just a little tired of this coiffeured airhead.
Just about anyone would do, but one of the little airhead bitches was getting even farther up the list than his professors.
He suckered that airhead on TV, and then he suckered the rest of us into following the story his way.