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- noun A
wound orinjury to thehead .
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Examples
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When the idea of an attempted assassination by some Westboro Baptist style nutjob is sort of appealing on account of the fact that a healed headwound would be just what you need for them to be sure you were the bona fide Beast of Revelation, well, that's not completely rational, I do confess.
Archive 2008-12-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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What's wrong with having some mud and tree bark rubbed on your gaping headwound, by medicine men?
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When the idea of an attempted assassination by some Westboro Baptist style nutjob is sort of appealing on account of the fact that a healed headwound would be just what you need for them to be sure you were the bona fide Beast of Revelation, well, that's not completely rational, I do confess.
Get Yer Free Blasphemy Here Hal Duncan 2008
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What's wrong with having some mud and tree bark rubbed on your gaping headwound, by medicine men?
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Perhaps you read the story of David Rosenbaum the late NYT journalist, who was mugged, picked up by the DC squad, taken halfway across the city because the EMT wanted to swing by her apartment and get some Vicodin for her toothache, parked in a very busy ER, forgotten until he started convulsing from his un-noticed headwound?
Why Not Run Hospitals Like Firehouses? 1 Dinosaur 2009
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I saw a man in a turban..then again he could have been recovering from a headwound…but you can never be too careful these days.
Firedoglake » The Miller’s Tale (And Other Legal Wranglings), Part III 2006
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During a drunken fight, the chief bandit suffered a headwound.
A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978
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I think he's picked up a headwound that needs a couple of stitches, because he's gone off down the tunnel. 24 min: The camera cuts to Liam Ridgewell, who chooses that exact moment to close one nostril with his thumb and evacuate the contents of the other with a strong puff.
The Guardian World News Barry Glendenning 2011
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The iPhone app instructed him to bandage and tourniquet his leg and staunch bleeding from his headwound.
Shiny Shiny 2010
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As for the female, was she confused having crashed the DROPS and sustaining a headwound or from the fact she had a gun to her head?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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