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Originally Posted by rzage  ......did you get your name from the Grateful Dead or something else .rzage |
Could be or could be one of these definitions! Which one fits you deadhead? In any case, welcome!
1.a person who attends a performance, sports event, etc., or travels on a train, airplane, etc., without having paid for a ticket, esp. a person using a complimentary ticket or free pass.
2.a train, railroad car, airplane, truck, or other commercial vehicle while operating empty, as when returning to a terminal.
3.a stupid or boring person; dullard.
4.Metallurgy. excess metal in the riser of a mold.
5.a sunken or partially sunken log. –verb (used with object)
6.to transport (someone) as a deadhead.
7.to move (an empty commercial vehicle) along a route.
8.Horticulture. to remove faded blooms from (ornamental plants), esp. in flower gardens, often to help continued blooming.
–verb (used without object)
9.to act or serve as a deadhead.
10.(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.
[Origin: 1570–80;
dead +
head
]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deadhead 
