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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

He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few newspaper readers suspect how much headwork goes into headlines.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Already he had weeded out three aspirants for honors on the eleven, who had shown no genuine aptitude for the exciting game where headwork and footwork combined go to bring success.

From Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums by Overton, Mark




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