deadhead
[ ded-hed ]
/ ˈdɛdˌhɛd /
noun
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
to act or serve as a deadhead.
(of a commercial vehicle) to travel without cargo or paying passengers: The train carried coal to Pittsburgh and then deadheaded back to Virginia to pick up another load.
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Example sentences from the Web for dead-headed
I may say here that Horace Greeley was dead-headed through to California.
Seventy Years on the Frontier |Alexander MajorsThe ticket with which the stage agent presented him, dead-headed him only to this point.
Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier |Frances Fuller Victor
British Dictionary definitions for dead-headed
deadhead
/ (ˈdɛdˌhɛd) /
noun
a dull unenterprising person
a person who uses a free ticket, as for a train, the theatre, etc
US and Canadian
a train, etc, travelling empty
US and Canadian
a totally or partially submerged log floating in a lake, etc
verb
(tr)
to cut off withered flowers from (a plant)
(intr) US and Canadian
to drive an empty bus, train, etc