deadheaded

Verb

deadhead (third-person singular simple present deadheads, present participle deadheading, simple past and past participle deadheaded)

1. (transitive) To admit to a performance without charge.
   • […] the "puffing" system in criticism, whereby newspaper people were deadheaded in exchange for complimentary notices.1960, Dissertation Abstracts, volume 20, page 2811
2. (intransitive) To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To drive an empty vehicle.
   • Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845
4. (transitive) To send (a person or message) for free.
   • Washington suggested that she get some old friend of the family to come with her, and said the Senator would “deadhead” him home again as soon as he had grown tired, of the sights of the capital.1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.
5. (transitive) To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.
   • If you deadhead your roses regularly, they will bloom all season.

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