deadhead
枯叶,枯草,枯枝,枯枝败叶
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Definitions
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- : a person who attends a performance, sports event, etc., or travels on a train, airplane, etc., without having paid for a ticket, especially a person using a complimentary ticket or free pass.
- : a train, railroad car, airplane, truck, or other commercial vehicle while operating empty, as when returning to a terminal.
- : a stupid or boring person; dullard.
- : Metallurgy. excess metal in the riser of a mold.
- : a sunken or partially sunken log.
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- : to transport as a deadhead.
- : to move along a route.
- : Horticulture. to remove faded blooms from, especially in flower gardens, often to help continued blooming.
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- : to act or serve as a deadhead.
- : to travel without cargo or paying passengers: The train carried coal to Pittsburgh and then deadheaded back to Virginia to pick up another load.
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Examples
The program would determine contractors’ routes, ideally cutting down on “deadhead miles,” or miles driven without a load of mail, and miles where trucks traveled with less-than-full trailers.
“The world perceives cannabis consumers as deadhead, unemployed people—our mission is to change that,” says Defalco.
What we should do, we knew, was to deadhead our horses back into the Park as soon as they had had a little rest.
It was said that a deadhead could not borrow a sheet of writing paper in the capitol, nor in a county court-house.
The farmer's features did not conceal his disgust when he discovered that his seat-mate was a deadhead.
You'll be a deadhead yourself if you ain't careful, young feller!
Two people I know, they just went deadhead for ten thousand years!