Usually means: Significantly superior or better than.
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  1. head and shoulders above: Merriam-Webster
  2. head and shoulders above: Collins English Dictionary
  3. head and shoulders above: Vocabulary.com
  4. head and shoulders above: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. head and shoulders above: Dictionary.com
  6. head and shoulders above: Rhymezone
  7. head and shoulders above: FreeDictionary.org
  8. head and shoulders above: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. head and shoulders above: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. head and shoulders above: Idioms

Definitions from WordNet (head and shoulders above)

adverb:  outstandingly superior to ("In intelligence he was head and shoulders above the others in his class")


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