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be-headphoned

be-headphoned adjective: wearing headphones.

Adjective

be-headphoned (not comparable)

  1. Wearing headphones.
    • She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was. […] There must be some perfectly simple explanation of the fact that...1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, pages 125 and 173
    • There were two pilots inside, strapped in and be-headphoned at their stations.1985, Julian Jay Savarin, Gunship, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 162
    Synonyms:
    headphoned

Examples of be-headphoned in a sentence

  • The card school, the reader, the be-headphoned groover – I don’t think much has changed in the habits of passing the time on board the team bus.1998 August 21, Neil Webb, “Perhaps mobiles are the answer”, in Reading Weekend Post, page 95:
  • The be-headphoned Matt Le Tissier, Paul Merson, Phil Thompson and Charlie Nicholas are an excellent quartet, working perfectly in tandem with Stelling, a genuine broadcasting genius.2011, Rob Smyth, Georgina Turner, Jumpers for Goalposts: How Football Sold Its Soul, Elliott and Thompson Limited, →ISBN, page 206:

Synonyms of be-headphoned

Forms of be-headphoned

alternative formbeheadphoned

Origin of be-headphoned

From be- + headphone + -ed.

Questions about be-headphoned

What does be-headphoned mean?
Be-headphoned means wearing headphones.
How do you use be-headphoned in a sentence?
The card school, the reader, the be-headphoned groover – I don’t think much has changed in the habits of passing the time on board the team bus.
What part of speech is be-headphoned?
Be-headphoned is an adjective.

Words near be-headphoned in the dictionary

  1. be-flounced
  2. be-furbelowed
  3. be-glassed
  4. be-goateed
  5. be-goggled
  6. be-headphoned
  7. be-helmeted
  8. be-in
  9. be-ins
  10. be-leggined
  11. be-legginged

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