Usually means: Traveling without cargo or passengers.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Deadhead, deadhead: Merriam-Webster
  2. Deadhead, deadhead, deadhead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deadhead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deadhead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deadhead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deadhead, deadhead: Wordnik
  7. deadhead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Deadhead, deadhead: Wiktionary
  9. deadhead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deadhead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deadhead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deadhead, deadhead: Dictionary.com
  13. Deadhead: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Deadhead (aviation), Deadhead (disambiguation), Deadhead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Deadhead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deadhead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deadhead: Rhymezone
  18. Deadhead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deadhead: FreeDictionary.org
  20. deadhead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. deadhead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Deadhead: World Wide Words
  23. deadhead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadhead: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadhead: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deadhead, deadhead, deadhead, deadhead: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. deadhead: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend.
noun:  An employee of a transport company, especially a pilot or flight attendant, traveling as a passenger for logistical reasons, for example to return home or travel to the next assignment.
noun:  Anyone traveling for free.
noun:  A train or truck moved between cities with no passengers or freight, in order to make it available for service.
noun:  A person staying at a lodging, such as a hotel or boarding house, without paying rent; freeloader.
noun:  A stupid or boring person; dullard.
noun:  A tree or tree branch fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable body of water, partially submerged or rising nearly the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk; snag.
noun:  (slang) Driftwood.
noun:  (slang) A zombie.
verb:  (transitive) To admit to a performance without charge.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To drive an empty vehicle.
verb:  (transitive) To send (a person or message) for free.
verb:  (horticulture) (transitive) To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.
noun:  (slang) A fan of the rock band Grateful Dead.
noun:  (slang) Alternative form of Deadhead (“fan of the rock band The Grateful Dead”) [(slang) A fan of the rock band Grateful Dead.]

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