Heads

Quick meaning: Heads is an interjection meaning A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads; heads-up.

Meaning

A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads; heads-up.

More Meanings

1. plural of head.
2. One side of a coin:
3. Clipping of headphones.
4. (Ireland, law) The draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.
5. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
6. third-person singular simple present indicative of head
7. (nautical) That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.

Example Sentences

Heads, I win.

Pass me the heads, I wanna listen.

The Heads of the Bill are being published to enable consultation with relevant sectors on the proposed changes prior to the detailed drafting of the Bill.

Until the session of 1782 bills could only (under Poynings’ Law) begin in the Irish privy council. However, informal legislative initiatives, known as ‘heads of bills’, began regularly in the houses of parliament.

Synonyms for heads

Depending on context, synonyms include heads up, fore, timber, KB, headies.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include caput, arch, top, headspring, fountainhead, forefront.

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