Usually means: Tool with flat hitting head.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word hammerhead:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hammerhead: Merriam-Webster
  2. hammerhead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hammerhead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hammerhead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hammerhead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hammerhead, hammerhead: Wordnik
  7. hammerhead: Wiktionary
  8. hammerhead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hammerhead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hammerhead: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hammerhead, hammerhead: Dictionary.com
  12. Hammerhead (James Reyne song), Hammerhead (Jeff Beck song), Hammerhead (The Offspring song), Hammerhead (band), Hammerhead (comics), Hammerhead (film), Hammerhead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hammerhead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hammerhead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hammerhead: Rhymezone
  16. Hammerhead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hammerhead: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hammerhead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hammerhead: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hammerhead: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hammerhead)

noun:  The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
noun:  (zoology) Any of various sharks of the genera Sphyrna or Zygaena having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape.
noun:  (zoology) A fresh-water fish; the hogsucker, Hypentelium nigricans, in the sucker family Catostomidae.
noun:  (zoology) An African fruit bat, the hammer-headed fruit bat, Hypsignathus monstrosus, so called from its large blunt nozzle.
noun:  (zoology) Scopus umbretta (hammerkop).
noun:  (slang) A stupid person, a dunce.
noun:  A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
noun:  (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.

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