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Hammerhead

noun
1.
A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.  Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead.
2.
The striking part of a hammer.
3.
Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous.  Synonym: hammerhead shark.



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"Hammerhead" Quotes from Famous Books



... principles of comparative anatomy. The common shark is perhaps the most fundamental form, with a hull-like body undivided into head, trunk, and tail, and from it have originated such peculiar variations as the hammerhead and skate. Among fishes with true bones, a cod or trout is the most typical in general features. Without ceasing to be true bony fishes, the trunk-fish and cow-fish are adapted by their peculiar characters of spine and armor plate to repel many ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton


Words linked to "Hammerhead" :   stupid, Sphyrna tudes, head, dullard, stupid person, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo, hammer, shark, peen, stupe, genus Sphyrna, muttonhead, Sphyrna, shovelhead, smooth hammerhead, dolt, bonnethead, lunkhead, poor fish, hammerhead shark, pillock, pudden-head, pudding head, Sphyrna zygaena


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