deadhead

Meanings

Noun

• A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend.
• An employee of a transport company, especially a pilot, traveling as a passenger for logistical reasons, for example to return home or travel to the next assignment.
• Anyone traveling for free.
• A train or truck moved between cities with no passengers or freight, in order to make it available for service.
• A person staying at a lodging, such as a hotel or boarding house, without paying rent; freeloader.
• A stupid or boring person; dullard.
• A tree or tree branch fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable body of water, partially submerged or rising nearly the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk; snag.
• Driftwood.
• Alternative of Deadhead
• A zombie.

Verb

• To admit to a performance without charge.
• To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.
• To drive an empty vehicle.
• To send (a person or message) for free.
• To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.

Origin

• From dead + head.