Heads
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛdz
Origin 1
Plural of head.
Full definition of heads
Interjection
!- A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.
Noun
plural
pl- Plural of head
- (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.
- The side of a coin that bears the picture of the head of state or similarHeads, I win.
- abbreviation for headphones.Pass me the heads, I wanna listen.
- (Irish, legal) Draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament
- 2000s "How Irish statutes were made" Queens University Belfast:Until the session of 1782 bills could only (under Poynings’ Law) begin in the Irish privy council. However, informal legislative initiatives, known as ‘heads of bills’, began regularly in the houses of parliament.
- 2012 Department of Justice and Equality "Government Publishes Proposed Amendments to Anti Money-Laundering Law" Dublin, 6 June 2012:The Heads of the Bill are being published to enable consultation with relevant sectors on the proposed changes prior to the detailed drafting of the Bill.
Antonyms
- (side of coin): tails
Derived terms
Origin 2
Verb
heads
(third-person singular of head)