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bonehead

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Are they going to sack the middle-management bonehead who blew this up into a much more embarrassing spectacle?

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Quick take

(slang) Someone who is thick-skulled, stupid, or stubborn.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(slang) Someone who is thick-skulled, stupid, or stubborn.

noun

(slang) A member of a neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and antisemitic offshoot of the skinhead subculture.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bonehead.

Example sentences

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Are they going to sack the middle-management bonehead who blew this up into a much more embarrassing spectacle?

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It's not so much a DRM issue as it is a bonehead policy and decision-making on the part of Amazon.

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It feels good to get some real criticism for once:) Relying on Twitter was a truly bonehead move, to be sure.

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Apply that persistance to business and you will be one very well-off bonehead:-) Cheers!

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It was just one of dozens of bonehead mistakes I made in building and operating my first aquaponics system.

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The more commonplace it becomes, the more bonehead criminals will be using it.

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Before anyone else points it out...yes, I made the bonehead move of releasing a podcasting book with no audio version.

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Barely graduated high school and majoring in underwater basketweaving at BoneHead U?

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My point is that Joey is not in general a bonehead.

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The sooner we can stop worrying about bonehead, forgot to check for null errors, the sooner we can concentrate on real problems.

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Of all Dvoraks bonehead stories, this one takes the cake.

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Don't ask me, I think it's the most bonehead retarded thing ever.

Quote examples

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Think of all the programmer-hours that will go into retrofiting compilers, libraries and runtime with "hardware accelerated text processing", just because some bonehead PHB heard this news and suddenly wants it?

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Of course, the fact that the bonehead flying it has put 4 the structural load on the wings that they were designed to support might* be what caused that to happen - but "stupid wings, if only we had made them out of concrete"...

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Hopefully, the instruction was more than, "Wow, this guy is a bonehead.":D I think some mindset changes are needed here, in that I'm used to dealing with interpreted languages, rather than compiled ones.

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This is a good article, and the consensus among food writers, reporters, scholars and enthusiasts is clearly that much of western food/agri regulation is wrongheaded (note that even "enlightened" continental Europe retains some of the US's signature bonehead moves, like bans on young raw milk cheese).

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use bonehead in a sentence?

Are they going to sack the middle-management bonehead who blew this up into a much more embarrassing spectacle?

What does bonehead mean?

(slang) Someone who is thick-skulled, stupid, or stubborn.

What part of speech is bonehead?

bonehead is commonly used as noun.