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zipperhead, n. U.S. slang. derogatory.
Brit. |ˈzɪpəhɛd|, U.S. |ˈzɪpərˌ(h)ɛd|
[‹ zipper n. + head n.1]
1. A stupid person, a fool.
1967Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-Times 27 July 6 t/2 Maybe by then one of you zipperheads will be able to come up with something more constructive than excuses. 1975New Yorker 26 May 33/3 The network zipperheads wanted to play it as a turnabout farce, there obviously being nobody in ‘real life’ like this. 1994J. Birmingham He died with Felafel in his Hand (1997) i. 1 You seem to interview about thirty people every day and they are all total zipper heads. 2000P. Beatty Tuff v. 61 You..zipperhead, don't you watch the news? Communism is dead.
2. orig. Mil. (offensive). = zip n.3
1967Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 5 Nov. 7/3 Visitors to Pleiku's number one museum are greeted by Charlie Zipperhead, a rifle-toting North Vietnamese dummy. 1973W. T. Huggett Body Count 191 The zips... Zipper heads, the gooks, sloops [sic], dinks. 1988Standard Nov. 5/3 The Army made the ‘enemy’ less than human to them. ‘Gooks, dinks and zipperheads’ were born in their minds and vocabulary. 1991B. Ellis Amer. Psycho xi. 95, I would have found a way to get to Exeter where I would pour a bottle of acid all over their son's slanty-eyed zipperhead face. |
