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shithead

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈʃɪt.hɛd//

A stupid or contemptible person.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA stupid or contemptible person.

    Unfortunately Todd is a dummy, but what's worse is that Harvey is a shithead.

    He goes, The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don't listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

    Suck my spinning steel, shithead!

  2. 2

    A card game, the aim of which is to lose one's cards.

  3. 3

    slangA person who uses the drug cannabis.

    Reynolds tensed his jaw, “we have a lot less shitheads in the LoC than they do over here. You wanna know why? Cuz it's all legal. We got farmers growin' marijuana. Poppies. Coca. Instead of shitheads we got cokeheads and dope heads. […]

Etymology

From shit + head. Dysphemistically modelled after dickhead.

Forms

plural
shitheads
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).