airhead
An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the…An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.
» Haven't you forgotten something, you little airhead?
Meaning
3 sensesAn area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.
Luftbrückenkopf, Luftlandekopf
возду́шный плацда́рмvozdúšnyj placdárm, плацда́рм для возду́шного деса́нтаplacdárm dlja vozdúšnovo desánta
(broadly)A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.
Luftbrückenkopf
(derogatory, informal)A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.
Dummkopf, Wirrkopf
дурачо́кduračók, ду́рочкаdúročka, пуста́я башка́pustája bašká
- a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
- a flighty scatterbrained simpleton
Examples
10 sentencesHaven't you forgotten something, you little airhead?
You can be a bit of an airhead.
It was a snobbish club full of preppy airheads.
I'm a bit of an airhead; I keep forgetting to do my homework.
Mary's such an airhead, dude.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
From air + head (“foremost, topmost, or leading part”), sense 1 (“area of hostile territorFrom air + head (“foremost, topmost, or leading part”), sense 1 (“area of hostile territory seized for use as an airbase”) by analogy with beachhead and bridgehead.
From air + head, in the sense of having one’s head filled with air instead of a brain; compare empty-headed.
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