Hammerhead

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).

    "Holonym: hammer"

  2. 2
    medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous wordnet
  3. 3
    Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:; Any shark of the family Sphyrnidae, which only includes the genera Sphyrna and Zygaena, with eyes set on projections from the sides of the head.
  4. 4
    the striking part of a hammer wordnet
  5. 5
    Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:; A hogsucker, a fresh-water fish of species Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
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  1. 6
    a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence wordnet
  2. 7
    Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:; A hammer-headed fruit bat, a fruit bat of species Hypsignathus monstrosus, with a large blunt nozzle.
  3. 8
    Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:; A hammerkop, a bird of species Scopus umbretta.
  4. 9
    A stupid person, a dunce. slang

    "[The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead."

  5. 10
    A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
  6. 11
    A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.

Etymology

From hammer + head.

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