Airhead

Quick meaning: Airhead is a noun meaning (by extension) A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.

Meaning

(by extension) A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.

More Meanings

1. (mining, archaic) Alternative form of air-head (“a horizontal channel providing ventilation in a mine.”).
2. (originally US, informal, derogatory) A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.
3. (military) An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.

Example Sentences

He [Wilhelm Bittrich] commanded the 2nd S.S. Panzer Corps in Normandy and assisted in the wiping out of the British airhead at Arnhem in 1944.

The initial airhead may in fact be a series of smaller airheads which, after landing, join up in combat structure as mutually supporting in a tactical sense.

The French quickly massed a division-sized force of airborne soldiers within the airhead. During the 55-day siege, over 4,000 reinforcements were parachuted into Dien Bien Phu.

In another war airheads will be more important than beachheads. Neither one will work unless we can keep it adequately supplied. The successful combat air force will require a huge transport fleet for air lift.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for airhead

Depending on context, synonyms include airling, bimbo, bubblehead, addle-brain, addlehead, baboon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include empty-headed, featherbrained, frivolous, silly, light-headed, giddy.

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