airheads
airheads is the plural of airhead.
Meaning of airhead
Noun (1)
airhead (plural airheads)
- An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.
- The only difference between an airhead and a beachhead is that an airhead covers 360 degrees whereas a beachhead usually covers 180 degrees. An airhead is two beachheads back to back with the reinforcements and resupply coming by air instead of by sea. [...] [T]o handle their mountainous...1946 December, James M[aurice] Gavin, “Airborne Armies of the Future: Part One”, in Infantry Journal: A Magazine for the Ground Combat Forces, volume LIX, number 6, Washington, D.C.: Infantry...
- A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.
Noun (2)
airhead (plural airheads)
- A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.
- Sometimes people tell you directly that you aren't very smart, but most of the time they ignore your attempts to display your intelligence, or they kid you about being a "space case" or an "airhead." After a while you are bound to see yourself as not very intelligent, particularly if the people who...1989, Lynne Kelly, Arden K. Watson, “The Process of Communication”, in Speaking with Confidence and Skill (Speech Communication Series), Lanham, Md.; London: University Press of America, →ISBN, page...
- Synonyms:
- airling, bimbo, bubblehead, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead
Questions about airheads
- What is airheads the plural of?
- Airheads is the plural of airhead.
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