Meaning

(derogatory) A bald person, especially a man..

Definitions by Sense

1. (derogatory) A bald person, especially a man.
2. A bald head.
3. (derogatory) An intellectual, especially one who is insensitive, pedantic, or out of touch.

Example Sentences

Then no one will know whether you are a genuine egghead or not. Besides, completely bald men are more sensual.

His own image as a bald man - egghead - with glasses aids this perception.

Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon."

But at the top of the "egghead", the blood vessels become pinched and the flow is blocked.

At one point he even lifts his cap to reveal an egghead bald-cap atop white hair and spectacles.

Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over.

His shoulders were so misshapen they almost met over his sunken chest and they were topped by a pointy egghead, bald but for a few short sproutings of hair.

Just because some of you eggheads spend half your life in college don't mean you've got any monopoly on good common sense.

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• eggheads

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Use egghead when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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