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o'erhead

o'erhead is the contraction of overhead.

Meaning of overhead

Adjective

overhead (comparative more overhead, superlative most overhead)

  1. Located above, especially over the head.
    • Place your luggage in the overhead lockers.
  2. Kicked over one's own head.
    • It was Rooney, however, who produced a moment of inspiration to score a stunning overhead kick that will live forever in the memory of United's fans and extended City's dismal sequence of only one league win in their last 27 visits to Old Trafford.2011 February 12, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 2 - 1 Man City”, in BBC

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Forms of o'erhead

comparativemore o'erhead
superlativemost o'erhead

Questions about o'erhead

What is o'erhead the contraction of?
O'erhead is the contraction of overhead.

Words near o'erhead in the dictionary

  1. o'ercame
  2. o'ercome
  3. o'ercomes
  4. o'ercoming
  5. o'ergrown
  6. o'erhead
  7. o'erjoy
  8. o'erjoyed
  9. o'erjoying
  10. o'erjoys
  11. o'erlaid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: o'erhead (page history and authors); overhead (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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