Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Roundheaded.
  • Stupid; doltish.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a small round head
  • adjective obstinate and stupid

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Examples

  • Embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he met with a tall, bullet-headed man he knew only as Col. Korbator.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: September 21, 2009 2009

  • As Mike, the muscle for meth kingpin Gustavo Fring Giancarlo Esposito, the bullet-headed character actor makes sequences like Sunday's heart-stopping opener — in which he blasted his way out of an ambush, then calmly bent his nearly blown-off ear back into place — look like a walk in the proverbial park.

    Cheers & Jeers: Breaking Bad Takes it to the Banks 2011

  • The film draws on the book of the same name by Valerie Plame, who was in the CIA but is not a bullet-headed, square-jawed man.

    Fair Game: Free agents 2011

  • Chaffey in 1899 was a stout, bullet-headed man of fifty-one who reigned as the leading irrigationist in America, a man with an almost mystical ability to find water under the most parched terrain and to put it to profitable use.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Chaffey in 1899 was a stout, bullet-headed man of fifty-one who reigned as the leading irrigationist in America, a man with an almost mystical ability to find water under the most parched terrain and to put it to profitable use.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The bullet-headed Bendis was described in the introduction as "the go-to guy for blowing things up and starting all over again" and "probably the most popular writer working in comics today."

    Real-life violence rocks the Comic-Con nerds in San Diego 2010

  • That pathology the liberal author defined as “bullet-headed, patriotic incuriosity.”

    OBAMA ZOMBIES Jason Mattera 2010

  • His chief of section, a short, bullet-headed former FBI man, said his specialist services were needed.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • That pathology the liberal author defined as “bullet-headed, patriotic incuriosity.”

    OBAMA ZOMBIES Jason Mattera 2010

  • Kerik bogarted about town as Rudy's “wingman”, covering for his peccadilloes, and racking up his own share while swaggering in bullet-headed glory as a brass-knuckled thug-cum-copper.

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