Meaning of Airhead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.
2. A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.
   derogatory, informal
3. A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“The only difference between an airhead and a beachhead is that an airhead covers 360 degrees whereas a beachhead usually covers 180 degrees. An airhead is two beachheads back to back with the reinforcements and resupply coming by air instead of by sea. [...] [T]o handle⟳ their mountainous proportions there must be in the airhead a sufficient number⟳ of trained and equipped airhead service troops.”

“In another war airheads will be more important than beachheads. Neither one will work⟳ unless we can keep⟳ it adequately supplied. The successful combat air force⟳ will require⟳ a huge transport⟳ fleet for air lift⟳.”

“The initial airhead may in fact be a series of smaller airheads which, after landing, join⟳ up in combat structure⟳ as mutually supporting in a tactical sense⟳.”

“The French quickly massed a division-sized force⟳ of airborne soldiers within the airhead. During the 55-day siege, over 4,000 reinforcements were parachuted into Dien Bien Phu.”

“Following the success of this raid, [Orde] Wingate realised that transport⟳ aircraft in radio contact⟳ with troops on the ground had revolutionised jungle warfare. He advocated a total restructuring of the Allied offensive so that instead of an overland advance, it would seize airheads and leapfrog forward⟳ by air to Hanoi, in Indochina.”

“He [Wilhelm Bittrich] commanded the 2nd S.S. Panzer Corps in Normandy and assisted in the wiping out of the British airhead at Arnhem in 1944.”

“[T]he mine then becomes exposed to the most fearful results, where the workings have⟳ been opened, by the Air being driven backwards along the Airhead into the reservoirs of Gas formed in the upper cavities of the workings, and issuing into the Gate-road charged with the Gas to the firing point⟳, causing an explosion, of which many familiar instances might be adduced.”

“Sometimes people tell⟳ you directly that you aren't very smart, but most of the time they ignore⟳ your attempts to display your intelligence, or they kid you about being a "space case" or an "airhead." After a while you are bound to see⟳ yourself as not very intelligent, particularly if the people who have⟳ been sending you those messages about yourself are important to you.”

“Yeah. Well, Tammi is a bit of an airhead, I guess⟳, but I feel⟳ sorry for her.”

“He would be thrust into the invidious position of subordinate host⟳, welcoming all the dorks and dweebs and airheads that he saw⟳ far too much of in school.”

“So, just why couldn't I be an oblivious airhead with absolutely no patience and piles of fury, just so I could fit in and rush⟳ everything in order⟳ to cause who knows what?”

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