1
a
: having no head
b
: having the head cut off : beheaded
2
: having no chief
3
: lacking good sense or prudence : foolish
headlessness
noun
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In recent years, the average price of headless shrimp has dropped to as low as $1.50 per pound for some sizes of shrimp along the Gulf Coast — while the costs of diesel fuel and running a business have climbed.
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Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
On its own, the headless statue measures nearly four feet tall with a shoulder width of almost two feet.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Listing those key factors again, that was microservices (M), application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud-native (C) and headless (H), which gives us MACH.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
There are even some interpretations of signs that multiple experts agree on – a headless stick figure representing a person, for instance.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
On its own, the headless statue measures nearly four feet tall with a shoulder width of almost two feet.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Listing those key factors again, that was microservices (M), application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud-native (C) and headless (H), which gives us MACH.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
There are even some interpretations of signs that multiple experts agree on – a headless stick figure representing a person, for instance.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for headless
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“Headless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headless. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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