Synonyms
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- cluck
- clunk
- cretin
- cuddy [British dialect]
- cuddie
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- dolt
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- prat [British]
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schlub [slang]
- shlub
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of meathead in a Sentence
Her brother's a real meathead.
he's a meathead, but handy to have around if there's any heavy lifting to be done
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Then suddenly, with half an hour to go in the day and a 10 minute boat ride still ahead, a 5-pound, 10-ounce meathead erupted on my buzzbait.
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Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 10 July 2024
But now his next appearance with McAfee has become appointment television for people with nothing to do in the middle of the day, and a meathead controversy Rodgers started on that show will continue.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
Until recently, lifting was associated almost exclusively with a specific kind of meathead: crude, tattooed, ragey, offensive.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Contra-stereotype, Finkel estimates that only ten per cent of meatheads are numbskulls.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
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Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 10 July 2024
But now his next appearance with McAfee has become appointment television for people with nothing to do in the middle of the day, and a meathead controversy Rodgers started on that show will continue.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
Until recently, lifting was associated almost exclusively with a specific kind of meathead: crude, tattooed, ragey, offensive.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Contra-stereotype, Finkel estimates that only ten per cent of meatheads are numbskulls.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
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“Meathead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meathead. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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