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head and shoulders

head and shoulders adverb: to a considerable degree.

Adverb

head and shoulders (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) To a considerable degree.
    • She was head and shoulders better than any of her rivals.
    • He was head and shoulders above the others in the law firm.
  2. By force; violently.
    • to drag somebody head and shoulders
    • They bring in every figure and scheme of speech, head and shoulders.1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics

Noun

head and shoulders

  1. A characteristic formation on a technical analysis chart where two lower peaks appear around a central higher peak.

Questions about head and shoulders

What does head and shoulders mean?
Head and shoulders means to a considerable degree.
What part of speech is head and shoulders?
Head and shoulders can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near head and shoulders in the dictionary

  1. Heacocks
  2. Heacox
  3. Heacoxes
  4. head
  5. head and ears
  6. head and shoulders
  7. head band
  8. head bands
  9. head bang
  10. head bangs
  11. head beetler

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