saphead

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saphead

slang A foolish, stupid person. It galls me to think of my father's company now in the hands of that damned saphead. I can't believe I fell for that scam. I'm such a saphead!
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saphead

n. a sap. Don’t be such a saphead, dude.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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You don't seem to know anything, somehow -- perfect saphead."
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The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.
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You see yourself 20 years from now, prowling gunshops and gun shows: "Does anyone here have a SAPHEAD? I need a box of Seven SAPHEADS?
It's chambered for the new 7mm Super Accurate Precision Highly Effective Antelope and Deerslayer (SAPHEAD).
Stocking the brass locker. (Rifleman)
A union official in Providence gloated that a "good beating" administered by strike sympathizers had convinced some of the student "sapheads" to reconsider their new careers as strikebreakers.(50)
The student as strikebreaker: college youth and the crisis of masculinity in the early twentieth century
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