heads

English Online Dictionary. What means heads‎? What does heads mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛdz/
• Rhymes: -ɛdz

Etymology 1

Plural of head.

Interjection

heads!

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

Synonyms

• (warning): heads up, fore, timber

Noun

heads

1. plural of head.

Noun

heads

1. (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.
2. One side of a coin:–
   1. (usually) the side that bears the picture of the head of state or other national symbol.

      Synonym: obverse

      Antonym: tails

   2. (Ireland, sometimes) the side that does not bear an image of the Irish harp

      Synonym: reverse

      Antonym: harps

3. Clipping of headphones.

4. (Ireland, law) The draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.
   • 2000s "How Irish statutes were made" Queens University Belfast:

   • 2012 Department of Justice and Equality "Government Publishes Proposed Amendments to Anti Money-Laundering Law" Dublin, 6 June 2012:

5. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

Derived terms

• heads of agreement
• heads or harps
• heads or tails

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

heads

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of head

Etymology 3

head (from the notion that it gives a head high) +‎ -s (possibly either genitive or plural).

Noun

heads (uncountable)

1. (slang) High-grade marijuana.

Synonyms

• kine bud, kine bud, KB, KBs
• headies

Coordinate terms

• mersh, regs, schwag
• mids, middies

Anagrams

• Da'esh, Daesh, Desha, Hades, Shade, Shead, ashed, deash, hades, sadhe, shade