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rockhead

rockhead noun: the surface of the bedrock beneath soil cover.

Noun (1)

rockhead (plural rockheads)

  1. The surface of the bedrock beneath soil cover.
    • This type of area, with reasonably well-defined rockheads under glacial and lacustrine deposits, probably represents optimum conditions for the adoption of seismic exploration techniques.2012, P. B. Attewell, I. W. Farmer, Principles of Engineering Geology, page 457
  2. The fish Bothragonus swanii, a variety of poacher.
  3. (derogatory, slang) A stupid person.
    • Men seemed just as superfluous as women, a bunch of rockheads running around punching each other and getting hot and sweaty about guns.2016, James Young, Rise of the Dust Child

Noun (2)

rockhead (plural rockheads)

  1. (slang) A fan of rock music.
    • […] an apparent betrayal of electronica's more oblique, less suburban ethos in favor of a record the rockheads like.1997, New York Magazine, volume 30, number 15, page 65
    • The rarest species was a Protestant although I'd bet that the majority of Ivy League rockheads in the 1950s were Prots.2015, Edward A. Hagan, To Vietnam in Vain: Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969-1970, page 46

rockhead meaning in Tamil

rockhead in Tamil

பாறைத்தலை

Forms of rockhead

pluralrockheads

Origin of rockhead

From rock + head.

From rock + -head.

Questions about rockhead

What does rockhead mean?
Rockhead means the surface of the bedrock beneath soil cover.
What is rockhead in Tamil?
Rockhead in Tamil is பாறைத்தலை. See Rockhead meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rockhead?
Rockhead is a noun.
What is the plural of rockhead?
The plural of rockhead is rockheads.

Words near rockhead in the dictionary

  1. rockglasses
  2. rockhair
  3. Rockhampton
  4. Rockhamptonian
  5. rockhard
  6. rockhead
  7. rockheaded
  8. rockheads
  9. rockhearted
  10. Rockhill
  11. Rockhill Furnace

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rockhead (page history and authors); rockhead (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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