Meaning of deadheader | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who removes the dead remains of blossoms from plants.
2. A non-paying passenger.
3. A scheduled trip to move a vehicle that has no cargo and no passengers.
4. One who does not work very hard at their job.
5. A racing pigeon that will not leave when released.

Examples

“Instead, she is a weeder, actually for enjoyment ("That's when I get⟳ some of my best thinking done"), a keen harvester of flowers for the house, and a merciless deadheader of perennials in the autumn.”

“Take⟳ care if deadheading in the evening when the flowers have⟳ just folded down as bees seem to enjoy⟳ resting in them at this time and may give⟳ the deadheader a stinging surprise⟳.”

“I'm just the deadheader of roses and pansies—a very lowly assistant gardener.”

“There's company rules against riders. I told him tonight he's gonna have⟳ a deadheader; all he wanted to know⟳ was you gonna have⟳ coffee money.”

“A septuagenarian deadheader? A senior citizen stowaway? Unlikely.”

“When aircraft are swapped, a pilot might travel⟳ as a deadheader on the flight he or she was originally scheduled to fly⟳.”

“From Granite City, I think⟳ it was, we rode a deadheader to Minneapolis.”

“Next to the cash register⟳, a bulletin board⟳ was thumbtacked with notes from deadheaders who needed loads heading west, and shippers looking for a reefer (refrigerated truck) going down to Florida.”

“It had been the deteriorating remains of a defunct gold mine when George Perry stumbled across it on a deadheader back from a freight trip⟳/visit⟳ to a girlfriend in McGrath in June about twelve years back.”

“Any road, they throw⟳ me off at High Plains and then I hitch a ride⟳ on some shit deadheader across Chryse because Mr Engineer he's expecting to ride⟳ the whole rig with me hanging off.”

“...were always the "infamous machine" or the "bosses' candidate" or the "payroll deadheaders and racketeers."”

“If before the war better-skilled smeltermen had little recourse against deadheaders, during the war they joined with foremen, itself a telling alliance, in using patriotic expectations to discipline those they believed were illegitimate deadheaders.”

“Don does this to catch⟳ "Deadheaders" - birds which circle the wrong way and won't leave⟳ the release⟳ site. By his precise records, Don can remove⟳ deadheaders by a process⟳ of elimination.”

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