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# How to pronounce "dead head" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈdɛdhɛd/`
- **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-deadhead.ogg/En-au-deadhead.ogg.mp3)
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **dead·head**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun, verb
- **NOUN**: A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend.
  - *Example*: "Among the Romans.... The free admission tickets were small ivory death's heads, and specimens of these are to be seen in the Museum of Naples. From this custom, it is stated, that we derive our word “Deadhead,” as denoting one who has a free entrance to places of amusement."
- **NOUN**: An employee of a transport company, especially a pilot or flight attendant, traveling as a passenger for logistical reasons, for example to return home or travel to the next assignment.
  - *Example*: "Are you my deadhead to Miami?"
- **VERB**: To admit to a performance without charge.
  - *Example*: "[…] the "puffing" system in criticism, whereby newspaper people were deadheaded in exchange for complimentary notices."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (7 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "dead head" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "the only risk to the bonds is if people stop drinking and what i figured out is you know in good times they drink and in bad times they drink more dead head no well i'm a lot of different things you can't pin me down on that one either i mean i'm i'm killing me that i'm not going to see lincoln park um next couple weeks and there's halpern out there he's put me through the music gauntlet and i think i did okay okay but that's not all there is more listen to mr unfiltered sorry governor"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxWMEEx8ArE&t=211s)

### Example 2
> "And here you can see the body actor. And then this is what we called the "dead head," no reference to Jerry Garcia. And then here's the reconstructed performance now with the timings of the performance."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUIfiLplNqQ&t=880s)

### Example 3
> "I'm not a deadhead our guest tonight is a dad a husband a governor and of course a dead head Ohio's John casing thanks for joining us here in your headquarters welcoming Us in I'm not a dead head you had to get over that kind of bar um get serious and talk about the gun issue you know you're someone who always talks about consensus and bringing people together in your statement to get elected president we sampled what"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 15:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxy_-w6cI0&t=934s)

### Example 4
> "look after all of the plants themselves when I walk through in the morning I think oh yes I might have to see to that and then I get ideas walk through the garden can easily take more than an hour because while you're going you start to dead head some roses or clear some weeds so it takes time it takes time their Botanica house as they call it is far from finished the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2A1102v2qU&t=93s)

### Example 5
> "issues of the day and some other stuff after this word from our sponsors I'm not a deadhead our guest tonight is a dad a husband a governor and of course a dead head Ohio's John casing thanks for joining us here in your headquarters welcoming Us in I'm not a dead head you had to get over that kind of bar um get serious and talk about the gun issue you"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 15:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxy_-w6cI0&t=924s)

### Example 6
> "through tickets good on the railroad from Hawkeye to Washington via New York and they were dead head tickets too which had been given to Senator Dorthy"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 457:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU6JJJukZ7A&t=27444s)

### Example 7
> "They had a captain, a copilot, a flight engineer, and the seat behind the captain called the jumpseat pilots dead head on company time."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI&t=871s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [hit the nail on the head](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hit-the-nail-on-the-head), [spot on](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/spot-on), [right on the money](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/right-on-the-money), [hit the mark](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hit-the-mark), [hit home](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hit-home), [accurate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/accurate), [dead](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dead), [head](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/head)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "dead head" correctly?
"dead head" is pronounced `/ˈdɛdhɛd/`. Syllable breakdown: **dead·head**.

### What does "dead head" mean in context?
A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend.

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