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conehead

conehead noun: a foam rubber rounded cone hat to be worn atop the head as a costume to appear to have a conical bald skull. Also the alternative form of Conehead.

Noun (1)

conehead (plural coneheads)

  1. A foam rubber rounded cone hat to be worn atop the head as a costume to appear to have a conical bald skull.
  2. An insect of the katydid subfamily Conocephalinae.
  3. Any member of the order Protura of insect-like arthropods.
    Synonyms:
    proturan
  4. (informal) A person who has undergone cranial modification in order to produce an elongated skull.
  5. (Australia, slang) A person addicted to smoking marijuana with a bong.
  6. (slang) A pinhead, a stupid person.

Noun (2) capitalized: Conehead

Conehead (plural Coneheads)

  1. One of a fictional race of humanoid aliens with conical skulls.

Noun (3) capitalized: Conehead

Conehead (plural Coneheads)

  1. (slang) A fan of baseball pitcher David Cone.

Also used as

conehead is also the alternative form of Conehead.

Synonyms of conehead

Forms of conehead

pluralconeheads
pluralConeheads
alternative formconehead
alternative formCone-Head
alternative formCone-head
alternative formCone Head

Origin of conehead

From cone + head.

From Cone + head.

Words formed from conehead

Questions about conehead

What does conehead mean?
Conehead means a foam rubber rounded cone hat to be worn atop the head as a costume to appear to have a conical bald skull.
What part of speech is conehead?
Conehead is a noun.
What is the plural of conehead?
The plural of conehead is coneheads.

Words near conehead in the dictionary

  1. coned
  2. coned off
  3. coneflower
  4. coneflowers
  5. Conegliano
  6. conehead
  7. coneheaded
  8. coneheads
  9. coneine
  10. Conejo
  11. Conejo buckwheat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conehead (page history and authors); Conehead (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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