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bullethead

bullethead is the alternative form of bullet-head.

Meaning of bullet-head

Noun

bullet-head (plural bullet-heads)

  1. A person's head shaped like a bullet.
  2. A stupidly stubborn person.
    • During break midway through our second session, I'd rolled my eyes and quipped sotto voce to Beth that some of the bulletheads in our class probably needed stupidity management more than anger management.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.13-14

Forms of bullethead

pluralbulletheads

Origin of bullethead

From bullet + head.

Questions about bullethead

What is bullethead the alternative form of?
Bullethead is the alternative form of bullet-head.

Words near bullethead in the dictionary

  1. bulleted
  2. bulleted list
  3. bulleted lists
  4. bulletfest
  5. bulletfests
  6. bullethead
  7. bulletheaded
  8. bulletheads
  9. bullethole
  10. bulletholes
  11. bulletin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bullethead (page history and authors); bullet-head (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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