as in idiot
a stupid person
he's a meathead, but handy to have around if there's any heavy lifting to be done
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Until recently, lifting was associated almost exclusively with a specific kind of meathead: crude, tattooed, ragey, offensive.
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Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Contra-stereotype, Finkel estimates that only ten per cent of meatheads are numbskulls.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
Efron looked, as meatheads would put it, ripped to the bone, with muscles that seemed ready to break free of his sunworshipper’s tan.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
Seann William Scott played the (ultimately) good-hearted meathead lax bro Steve Stifler in four American Pie movies.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 8 Aug. 2023
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Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Contra-stereotype, Finkel estimates that only ten per cent of meatheads are numbskulls.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
Efron looked, as meatheads would put it, ripped to the bone, with muscles that seemed ready to break free of his sunworshipper’s tan.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
Seann William Scott played the (ultimately) good-hearted meathead lax bro Steve Stifler in four American Pie movies.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 8 Aug. 2023
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“Meathead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meathead. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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