deadhead

dead·head  (ddhd) Informal

n.

1. A person who uses a free ticket for admittance, accommodation, or entertainment.

2. A vehicle, such as an aircraft, that transports no passengers or freight during a trip.

3. A person regarded as dull-witted or sluggish.

4. A partially submerged log or trunk.

v. dead·head·ed, dead·head·ing, dead·heads

v.tr.

1. To pilot or drive (a vehicle) carrying no passengers or freight.

2. To pull (dead or dying blossoms) off a flower.

v.intr.

1. To make a trip without passengers or freight: "The instruments were out, and it meant they had to deadhead back on another airplane" (Walter J. Boyne).

2. To bypass a senior employee in order to promote a more junior employee.

adv.

Without passengers or freight; empty.

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deadhead [ˈdɛdˌhɛd]

n

1. a dull unenterprising person

2. a person who uses a free ticket, as for a train, the theatre, etc.

3. (Transport / Railways) US and Canadian a train, etc., travelling empty

4. US and Canadian a totally or partially submerged log floating in a lake, etc.

vb

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Horticulture) (tr) to cut off withered flowers from (a plant)

2. (intr) US and Canadian to drive an empty bus, train, etc.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	deadhead - a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way; "the deadheads on the payroll should be eased out as fast as possible" nonworker - a person who does nothing
	2.	deadhead - a train or bus or taxi traveling empty public transport - conveyance for passengers or mail or freight