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game-head

game-head noun: a taxidermically preserved head of a game animal for display purposes.

Noun

game-head (plural game-heads)

  1. A taxidermically preserved head of a game animal for display purposes.
    • Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of game-head

pluralgame-heads

Questions about game-head

What does game-head mean?
Game-head means a taxidermically preserved head of a game animal for display purposes.
What part of speech is game-head?
Game-head is a noun.
What is the plural of game-head?
The plural of game-head is game-heads.

Words near game-head in the dictionary

  1. game-ending
  2. game-ends
  3. game-filled
  4. game-goer
  5. game-goers
  6. game-head
  7. game-heads
  8. game-keeper
  9. game-keepers
  10. game-making
  11. game-master

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