deadhead

1. (transitive) To admit to a performance without charge.Examples: "[…] the "puffing" system in criticism, whereby newspaper people were deadheaded in exchange for complimentary notices."transitive

2. (intransitive) To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.intransitive

3. (transitive, intransitive) To drive an empty vehicle.Examples: "Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children."intransitivetransitive

4. (transitive) To send (a person or message) for free.Examples: "Washington suggested that she get some old friend of the family to come with her, and said the Senator would “deadhead” him home again as soon as he had grown tired, of the sights of the capital."; "He said that if the operator had taken $800 and sent the message at the regular rate, which was twenty-five cents, it would have been all right, as the Jew would be punished for trying to bribe a military operator; but when the operator took the $800 and then sent the message deadhead, he couldn't stand it, and he would never relent."; "1934, Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson), Brand Of The Werewolf, A Doc Savage Adventure “I'll deadhead the message for you, Mr. Savage. It won't cost a thing.”"transitive

5. (horticulture) (transitive) To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.Examples: "If you deadhead your roses regularly, they will bloom all season."

1. (slang) A fan of the rock band Grateful Dead.Examples: "Out on the road today / I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac"slang