as in idiot
a stupid person
what pinhead put this together backwards?
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Recent Examples of pinhead
Tick larvae, which are translucent and the size of a pinhead, can also bite.
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Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Tiny, round exit holes — about the size of a pinhead — may appear on the bark, sometimes with dark staining or oozing sap.
—James Campbell, Mercury News, 28 July 2025
Ditto for the version dotted in micro round studs, which looked like pinheads.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 23 June 2025
Yet even capturing the identities of all 86 billion neurons, all smaller than a pinhead, plus their trillions of connections, still isn’t enough.
—Dobromir Rahnev, The Conversation, 23 May 2025
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Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Tiny, round exit holes — about the size of a pinhead — may appear on the bark, sometimes with dark staining or oozing sap.
—James Campbell, Mercury News, 28 July 2025
Ditto for the version dotted in micro round studs, which looked like pinheads.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 23 June 2025
Yet even capturing the identities of all 86 billion neurons, all smaller than a pinhead, plus their trillions of connections, still isn’t enough.
—Dobromir Rahnev, The Conversation, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinhead
Noun
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The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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There is nothing in the past year that suggests that the portion of this global event that will take place in the U.S. will proceed with anything less than exhausting chaos, a spoonful of stupid, and a dash of tragedy.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Jan. 2026
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And then, the rest of her life, filled with big stupids and everything else, will begin.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 Nov. 2025
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“Pinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinhead. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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