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headdesks

headdesks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of headdesk.

Meaning of headdesk

Verb

headdesk (third-person singular simple present headdesks, present participle headdesking, simple past and past participle headdesked)

  1. (slang) To bang one's head against the desk in frustration; (by extension) to express annoyance or exasperation.
    • Hopefully this will save someone else some head-desking; I'll see about writing up a patch for the docs describing this (unless I discover that I've been blind and this is, indeed, documented somewhere). :-D2006 August 8, Tom Tobin, “Re: MR: _manipulator_validate_FIELD() methods?”, in django-users (Usenet), retrieved 08 Feb 2017, message-ID <1fb3de5c0608081824j766463g52e109c405b18105@mail.gmail.com>

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Questions about headdesks

What is headdesks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Headdesks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of headdesk.

Words near headdesks in the dictionary

  1. headcut
  2. headcuts
  3. headdesk
  4. headdesked
  5. headdesking
  6. headdesks
  7. headdress
  8. headdressed
  9. headdresses
  10. headectomies
  11. headectomy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headdesks (page history and authors); headdesk (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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