an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
n. a stupid or stubborn person. : You are such a bonehead when it comes to buying cars.
mod. and boneheaded. stupid; stubborn. : Of all the boneheaded things to do! , You are a bonehead jerk!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Some bonehead has accidentally written all over the board with indelible red ink.
The only attention they get is when the manager makes a bonehead comment.
According to the bonehead editor who came up with this sensationalist headline, returned veterans are ticking bombs.