How to Use meathead in a Sentence

meathead

noun
  • Her brother's a real meathead.
  • In the end, the meathead’s attitude does not win out.
    — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
  • Men with the muscles to actually pull them off are deemed beefy meatheads.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Looks like Harbaugh has worked through this whole meathead conundrum.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Efron looked, as meatheads would put it, ripped to the bone, with muscles that seemed ready to break free of his sunworshipper’s tan.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
  • To that end, Moss found a perfect workout partner and meathead muse back in Des Moines.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 June 2025
  • In a moment that made too much sense, Kreischer was joined by Otis, and both meatheads shared a shirtless hug.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme pokes fun at his meathead persona in a new Amazon series.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The big meathead by the door keeps his arms crossed, eyeing Affleck's MacRay warily.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But one member of the team, a trigger-happy meathead, reacts out of fear and mistrust, slamming the door shut on the water column.
    — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
  • Contra-stereotype, Finkel estimates that only ten per cent of meatheads are numbskulls.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • When the Lions hired Campbell, they were mocked nationally for trusting their team to a meathead.
    — Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Finding an outlet for what remains of your competitive juices is good and healthy and, the presence of said meatheads aside, probably good for your social life, too.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 11 July 2017
  • Banter between the two men stays very funny in the first half, with Bobby taking potshots at Aaron’s meathead tastes in music, movies and men.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • These narrow-minded meatheads, however, are only thinking about one very specific type of running workout.
    — Emily Abbate, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a meathead quality present in all Bigelow films, and here that simplicity lends the film its procedural gravity.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The officer inside, a meathead in sunglasses and mustache, powered down his window and identified her by name, which disconcerted her.
    — Joshua Ferris, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • Hogan also had a personality that connected with the audience as something more than a one-dimensional, meathead heel.
    — Marc Raimondi june 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
  • Ballard replaced Chuck Pagano, a big-hearted but defensive-minded and decidedly old-school meathead of a coach, with Frank Reich.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2018
  • Yet for all the homicidal temper and tribal backstabbing, there was a ruthlessly funny, jaunty, and entertaining quality to Tony and his motley meathead crew.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Average people might benefit from exceeding the RDA for protein somewhat, while weightlifters, contrary to the meathead stereotype, don’t need a massive amount more.
    — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 May 2025
  • Previous SlideNext Slide The single-minded devotion of the first two films to their meathead aesthetic is astounding.
    — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Although one buff computer programmer, scouted off the street to model a few days before the opening, wore a red visor and ribbed tank—a sensitive meathead aesthetic plucked from the year 2000.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Two friends burn alive in defective tanning beds; a Bowflex machine crushes a meathead; a semi-trailer truck collides with Kevin's car, rocketing the motor into a bystander; and one girl's skull gets pelted by a nail gun.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • To see Caleb Williams lean into the rivalry, to see Johnson go full meathead, was invigorating for the local and the NFL, and the league’s fans should be thrilled as well.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But now his next appearance with McAfee has become appointment television for people with nothing to do in the middle of the day, and a meathead controversy Rodgers started on that show will continue.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Kieron Moore provides the necessary boo-hiss factor as Slovacek, a Czech-American meathead who accepts the comparisons to Ivan Drago as a badge of honor.
    — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And out there is right where the Colts need to be, to get the most out of a quarterback whose talent is superior but whose game was stagnating even before all those meatheads put him through a grinder that ultimately cost Luck the 2017 season.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2018
  • Speaking by phone, both actors say their characters — overprotective meathead Mitchell and divorcee Hunter — had individualized perceptions of masculinity that informed the film’s take on gender roles.
    — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Belle, dissing the local meathead and straining at the leash of her environment, marked a leap in Disney, when the role was sung by Paige O’Hara, in 1991, and the oomph of her carolling signalled her intent.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017

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