rockhead

noun — 4 senses

rockhead

noun

Etymology From rock + head.

1

Geography, Geology, Natural sciences The surface of the bedrock beneath soil cover.

  • This type of area, with reasonably well-defined rockheads under glacial and lacustrine deposits, probably represents optimum conditions for the adoption of seismic exploration techniques.2012, P. B. Attewell, I. W. Farmer, Principles of Engineering Geology, page 457:
2

The fish Bothragonus swanii, a variety of poacher.

3

Derogatory, Slang A stupid person.

  • Men seemed just as superfluous as women, a bunch of rockheads running around punching each other and getting hot and sweaty about guns.2016, James Young, Rise of the Dust Child:

rockhead

noun

Etymology From rock + -head.

1

Slang A fan of rock music.

  • […] an apparent betrayal of electronica's more oblique, less suburban ethos in favor of a record the rockheads like.1997, New York Magazine, volume 30, number 15, page 65:
  • The rarest species was a Protestant although I'd bet that the majority of Ivy League rockheads in the 1950s were Prots.2015, Edward A. Hagan, To Vietnam in Vain: Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969-1970, page 46:

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