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Hammerhead
noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
"Holonym: hammer"
- 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 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 the striking part of a hammer wordnet
- 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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- 6 a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence wordnet
- 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.
- 8 Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:; A hammerkop, a bird of species Scopus umbretta.
- 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."
- 10 A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
- 11 A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.
Etymology
From hammer + head.
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