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hammer | dickhead |

As a verb hammer

is .

As a noun dickhead is

(vulgar|colloquial) the glans penis.

hammer

English

(wikipedia hammer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  • A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  • (anatomy) The malleus of the ear.
  • (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  • (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  • (curling) The last rock in an end.
  • (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
  • Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  • One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
    • St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
  • * J. H. Newman
    • He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.

    Derived terms

    * ball peen hammer * claw hammer * cross peen hammer * hammer and sickle * hammerhead * hammer toe * sledgehammer * straight peen hammer * war hammer * Warrington hammer

    See also

    * mallet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  • To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • * Dryden
    • hammered money
  • (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  • (sports) To hit particularly hard.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd. }}
  • To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
    • I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
  • (figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
    • We hammered them 5-0!

    Derived terms

    * (adjective) * hammerer * (verb)

    See also

    * hammer out

    dickhead

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dick-head

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar, colloquial) The glans penis.
  • * 1970 , Clarence Major, All-night Visitors , page 71:
    • ...down, down, sinking down faster than she's so far moved, the dick head exploding up into all that wet, warm slime...
  • (vulgar, colloquial, pejorative) A jerk; a mean or rude person.
  • * 1965 , Robin Moore, The Green Berets , page 242:
    • I don't want them Special Forces guys left out there when some dickhead is afraid to go get them.
  • * 1996 , Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty page 207:
    • ...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead ," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.
  • (vulgar, colloquial, pejorative) A stupid or useless person.
  • * 1979 , E.M. Corder, The Deer Hunter , page 69:
    • "Watch it, dickhead !" "Hey, Stan, that's my shirt you just dropped in the snow!"

    Synonyms

    * bell-end * cockhead * knobhead * See also ; .