Meaning & use
bonehead
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a stupid or foolish person
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Only a bonehead would try to fix a live wire without turning off the power first.
The coach called it a bonehead play after the player threw the ball to the wrong base.
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The word literally suggests a head made of bone rather than brains, implying thickheadedness.
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