Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pejorative slang vulgar English) A stupid or contemptible person. 2 (context uncountable vulgar English) A card game, the aim of which is to lose one's cards
WordNet
n. these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, fuckhead]
Wikipedia
Shithead (also known as Karma, Palace, Shed and by many other names) is a card game, the object of which is to lose all of one's cards, with the last player to do so being the "shithead". This player must deal the next game and may be subject to some minor forfeit of the group's choice, such as fetching the next round of drinks.
The game, and variations of it, is popular in many countries amongst backpackers, and as a result is widespread. Although the basic structure of the game generally remains constant there are often regional variations of the game's original rules. The game is similar to the Finnish game Paskahousu.
Shithead is an insulting term for a person who is ignorant, narrow minded, cruel or unintelligent. It is generally considered to be a vulgar and profane term.
It may also refer to:
- Shithead (card game)
- "Shithead", a song by The Haunted found on the album One Kill Wonder
- Shithead, name of a dog owned by Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) in the film The Jerk (1979)
- Joey "Shithead" Keithley, punk musician from the band D.O.A.
- Shithead, a character in the comic book Wanted
Usage examples of "shithead".
Forcing him to jump through a fucking window with some American shithead shooting at him!
By Wednesday, he was asking classified questions over a scrambler phone of people in Washington, one of whom finally told him he was an arrogant shithead and banged down the phone.
Colonel Shithead to screw himself, but Drew and Westy warned me not to get playful.
Too much of the human race falls into the shithead category, Mattison realizes.
If nobody in the world ever lifted a finger to save shitheads from their own shitheadedness, then almost everybody would be in trouble.
So he resolved some time back, quite early in his sobriety, to do whatever he could to help the shitheads of the world overcome their shitheadedness, starting with himself but extending even unto the likes of McFlynn and Herzog.
He now switched to Shitheads, and for a little while he felt very happy and proud.
He milks us out here, then gives our rent money to shitheads like Warhol.
He's the shithead who Utters the woods with beer cans and poaches a big buck before shooting time, and wastes game, and hangs mounted heads all over his wall, and pays his dues to the NRA, and calls himself a 'sportsman,' for God's sake —.
He's the shithead who Utters the woods with beer cans and poaches a big buck before shooting time, and wastes game, and hangs mounted heads all over his wall, and pays his dues to the NRA, and calls himself a 'sportsman,' for God's sake like hunting was some kind of far-out football game.
A job washing dishes and flipping burgers for a bunch of shitheads nobody likes.
The crusts here are too fucking thin because the shithead chef who cooks here overbakes everything!
He's the shithead who Utters the woods with beer cans and poaches a big buck before shooting time, and wastes game, and hangs mounted heads all over his wall, and pays his dues to the NRA, and calls himself a 'sportsman,' for God's sake — like hunting was some kind of far-out football game.