Crossword clues for pinhead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 The head of a pin. (qualifier: Frequently used in size comparisons.) 2 (context slang English) An ignorant, naïve, foolish, or stupid person. 3 (context slang English) A telemark skier. 4 (context slang medicine English) A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak%20show as "human pinheads". 5 (context slang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet%20store English) A newborn cricket used as food for pets. n. 1 The head of a pin. (qualifier: Frequently used in size comparisons.) 2 (context slang English) An ignorant, naïve, foolish, or stupid person. 3 (context slang English) A telemark skier. 4 (context slang medicine English) A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak%20show as "human pinheads". 5 (context slang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet%20store English) A newborn cricket used as food for pets.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A pinhead is the head of a pin.
Pinhead, in reference to a person, may also mean:
People:
- A person with microcephaly
- Zip the Pinhead, a circus performer of the late 19th and early 20th century
Fictional characters
- Zippy the Pinhead, a comic strip character with microcephaly
- Pinhead (Puppet Master), in the "Puppet Master" series of films
- Pinheads, a group of sideshow circus characters in the stage play The Elephant Man
- Pinhead, the puppet sidekick of the television show Foodini the Great
- Pinhead (Hellraiser), the primary antagonist from the Hellraiser series of horror films
Other uses:
- A juvenile cricket
- "Pinhead", a song by The Ramones on their album Leave Home
Pinhead is a fictional character from the Hellraiser series, mostly serving as the main antagonist. His name is derived from a sobriquet given to him by the crew of the first Hellraiser film. Nearly thirty years later, Clive Barker gave him the proper designation Hell Priest in his sequel to The Hellbound Heart, The Scarlet Gospels.
Pinhead is one of the leaders of the Cenobites, formerly humans but transformed into creatures which reside in a extradimensional realm who travel to Earth through a puzzle box called the Lament Configuration in order to harvest human souls. His origins and the nature of the Cenobites vary depending upon the medium: while the character began as an amoral entity blindly devoted to the practice of experimental sadomasochism, later depictions have portrayed him as explicitly evil and even demonic in origin.
The character's appearance in 1987's Hellraiser marked a significant departure from the standard 1980s depiction of horror movie villains, who tended to either be completely mute, or provide glib commentary while killing their victims. Rather, Pinhead was depicted as quiet yet articulate and intelligent, drawing influence from classical cinematic depictions of Count Dracula.
Usage examples of "pinhead".
He could see three small moons, one at the horizon, about the size of his little fingernail, and two scarcely more than pinheads, overhead.
Remove the shrouding, and the pinhead itself is tiny enough to be implanted in a tooth.
It placed a miniaturized nest of embryonic robots, no larger than pinheads, within the card file, then a tiny find-circuit transmitter behind a subsequent card, then at last a potent detonating device set on a three-day command circuit.
While Omar crushed two hard-boiled eggs, shells and all, into the feed pan, I measured out cracked Flint corn and pinhead oats.
It would take, of course, the area of about a million pinheads because, instead of there being just the 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia, there are 24 million volumes.