airhead
📖 Definitions
noun
1. An area in a hostile territory, secured for bringing in supplies and personnel by air.
2. A silly or unintelligent person.
3. A horizontal channel created to provide ventilation in a mine.
💬 Usage Examples
“As the Allied armies advanced east, the Dakotas landed at recently captured German airfields and finally at Brussels, which became a major airhead.” Ken Cranefield: Pilot Badly Wounded Dropping Supplies Over Arnhem in 1944; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Oct 19, 2016. “Jeff Spicoli, the surfing-obsessed truant ... may have been an airhead, but he had a vocabulary.
Things he enjoyed were ‘gnarly’ or ‘humongous’.” Glenn Kenny; The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe; The New York Times; Aug 16, 2024.