blockheading

Verb

blockhead (third-person singular simple present blockheads, present participle blockheading, simple past and past participle blockheaded)

1. To perform as a human blockhead.
   • Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating.2007, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America, →ISBN
2. (rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
   • Two years' blockading made fair Malta ours: A noble struggle! -- yet 't is thought (at Rading) That Britain's island shews superior pow'rs, To bear, and to survive, two years blockheading !1804, The Spirit of the Public Journals

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