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ham·mer·head  (hmr-hd)

n.

1. The head of a hammer.

2. Any of several predatory sharks of the genus Sphyrna, having the sides of the head elongated into fleshy extensions with the eyes at the ends.

3. A wading bird (Scopus umbretta) of Africa and southwest Asia, having brown plumage, a large bladelike bill, and a long backward-pointing crest. Also called hammerkop, umbrette.

4. An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus), the male of which has a distinctive enlarged head.

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hammerhead

Noun

a shark with a wide flattened head

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Noun	1.	hammerhead - a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person - a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
	2.	hammerhead - the striking part of a hammer hammer - a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking head - the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer" peen - the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes)
	3.	hammerhead - medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous hammerhead shark shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales genus Sphyrna, Sphyrna - type genus of the Sphyrnidae smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena - fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver smalleye hammerhead, Sphyrna tudes - fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver bonnet shark, bonnethead, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo - small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries