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Examples
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And straightway he began to send out market-baskets loaded with dead-head tickets.
'Who Is Mark Twain?' 2009
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There isn't going to be a soul at the lecture — you must paper the house — you must load up every bench in it with dead-head tickets.
'Who Is Mark Twain?' 2009
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I am, what many would consider ... a neo dead-head.
The WELL: Scarlet Begonias Robert Hunter 2009
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In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a “dead-head” train that evening to move equipment out of the city.
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In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a “dead-head” train that evening to move equipment out of the city.
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Matisyahu was an acid indulged dead-head for the better part of his life.
Pseudo-Jews; or, who pretends to be Jewish at a Matisyahu concert?! | Jewschool 2006
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Anymore though, the Sunday morning t.v. dead-head, mind-numbing line-up, seems to present me with only a choice between caricatures and cartoons.
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No, they have no ethics other than to follow the lemming pack, just like all good neo-con dead-head zombies.
Think Progress » Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong 2006
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I had a dead-head of the trip for somebody got ill.
National Automobile Dealers Association Convention Address 2006
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I'm not looking forward to the November elections with all the dead-head rats that virtually all of the candidates tug along with them.
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