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HAMMERHEAD

Dictionary entry overview: What does hammerhead mean?

• HAMMERHEAD (noun)
The noun HAMMERHEAD has 3 senses:

1. these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
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

Familiarity information: HAMMERHEAD used as a noun is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• HAMMERHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

These words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

numskull; muttonhead; lunkhead; loggerhead; knucklehead; hammerhead; fuckhead; dunderhead; dunce; dumbass; bonehead; blockhead; shithead

Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):

simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The striking part of a hammer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):

head (the striking part of a tool)

Meronyms (parts of "hammerhead"):

peen (the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes))

Holonyms ("hammerhead" is a part of...):

hammer (a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hammerhead shark; hammerhead

Hypernyms ("hammerhead" is a kind of...):

shark (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hammerhead"):

smooth hammerhead; Sphyrna zygaena (fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver)

smalleye hammerhead; Sphyrna tudes (fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver)

bonnet shark; bonnethead; shovelhead; Sphyrna tiburo (small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries)

Holonyms ("hammerhead" is a member of...):

genus Sphyrna; Sphyrna (type genus of the Sphyrnidae)

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