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headwork

[hed-wurk] / ˈhɛdˌwɜrk /
NOUN
thinking cap
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A 4-4-1-1 looks likely, with Van der Vaart stealthily finding space to score – which last season was often created by Peter Crouch's headwork.

From The Guardian Aug. 12, 2011

They know he has made the least of the Government's departments into one of the three greatest, at the same time doing much of the headwork for the rest of the Cabinet during two administrations.

From Time Magazine Archive

All horseplay and no headwork, the gossips sneered, will surely make John a dull picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even plainsmen from Nola admired the headwork of the Viscianesi and came to lend a hand from time to time in supplying material for an orphanage for 200 children from three to seven.

From Time Magazine Archive

I only done it to stop his display, and my conscience hain’t been quite at rest ever sence about it, but then a woman has to work headwork to keep her pardner within bounds.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta




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